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This is the last Chevron of 1969. ‘Not that we wish to rush the Christmas Season any more than necessary, but this is also our reasonable facsimile of a Christmas issue. The Chevron will lead the way into the seventies on january 9.
Louis Silcox, sot 3, pointed out that the janitors had never refused * to work overtime when r~q~~st~d, and that nothing in the union contract prevented the janitors from working a s~~~shif t . Ford was eoneerned that if additio~al money had to be spent to keep union workers in the campus center, other parts of the university would feel their budgets were threatened. out that according to the terms of the campus @enter agreement, the board was powerless to force the university to use union labor, but that the board must let the university know where it stands. After the motion was passed, orr stated that the contract may have been already signed. Bob Sinasae, history 3,. demanded to know why the approval of the board would not be requested before a contract was signed. IIe received no reply. After the meeting, one janitor said, “I won’t lose my job, but I hope the union tiill stand up to the on this one, or we’ll . university ..,,a 99 just 1 1lose more grounu.
~ANC~U~~~( CUP)-The uniKeenleyside made the charges in asking why versity of British Columbia mon- a speech Saturday, day publicly admitted to doing re- UBC and 12 other Canadian universities were accepting mresearch search financed and eommissioned by the american military-but projects “financed by the pentadeclared the work was “pure sci- gon’A Monday, Keenleyside identified ence with ‘no direct military apfour more of the universities: MCplieations.” The revelations may spread to Gill, York, the university of Tormore Canadian universities-as onto and the university of ManiX many as IS-who are implicated toba. IJBC deputy president William in U.S. military research, accordofficially admitt~ ing to EIugh Keenleyside, chancel~~rmstrong was involved lor of Notre Dame university in that the university in five research projects for the Nelson, B.C. _
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“We’ll give the councillors their two cents’ worth,” was the way federation president Tom Patterson put it before be turned the proposed student council meetingiast monday into an executive board meeting because of a lack of quorUIXk.
Thirteen councillors showed up, one short of the number required for a meeting. Patterson said eouneillors present who were not members of the board would serve as council ob-
U.S. armed forces, as well as an additional project financed by the U.S. national aeronautics and space administration. He said Keenleyside “left the unfortunate impression that UBC is somehow engaged in war projects for the U.S. armed forces. This impression is false. “The university as an ~nstitu~on does not engage in research on behalf of the pentagon or any other agency. Research is su individual scientists on the uni-
IIe protieeded to read the constitution of the association, a nonpolitical and non-fee organisation, that will take over the CUS travel plan and later the CUS insurance -I--yian. After a quick debate, the motion was passed and the meeting was adjourned.
i~terest.“~ living in Vienna, was York in july and his was approved by the board of governors in September. La&. turned down offers from universities in Paris and Israel to accept the York appointment. IIe is the second pole this year to first have, then not have, a job at a canadian university,. Kazimiers Bilanow, a polish lawyer, was virtually promised a job last spring with the university of Ottawa Canadian and foreign law research center. On April 23, Bil~now received a letter from the center’s secretary Douglas Wallace which spoke *of d”ff’ 1 KU lt. ies in convincing the board of governors to hire someone “from a socialist country.” A later letter from Wallace said bilanow was rejected for financial reasons.
versity’s faculty from a wide variety of grants.” The grants from NASA and the U.S. military amount to only $129,759 “out of a total of more than $12, ,000 being received from all sources for research.” But the amount only represents this year’s grants from the military, not the total amount pumped into UBC over the years. Armstrong offered no figures on the total U.S. military investment in research at UBC. UBC officials maintained that
the university would not accept any programs involving secret research-all findings for research must be publishable9 they maintamed. Armstrong said all six of the UBC researchers had approached the U.S. services with their projects, were granted funds, and then had the projects approved by the UBC administration. “I think it’s a case of infiltrating the U.S. treasury, rather than the pentagon infiltrating UBC,” Armstrong said.
servers and then asked the board to approve membership of the federation in the association of student @ouncils-
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The infirmary will be closed, and there will be no nurses or doctors .on call during the following hours:
COUNSELLING
SERVICES
12noon december 24 to 8am december 27; 5pm december 31st to 8am january 3.
closed from noon december 24 to 9am december .29. It will close again at 5pm december 37 and reopen at 9am on 5 january.
The counselling
Students are requested to contact K-W hospital or St. Mary’s hospital emergency. Good luck.
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If a counsellor is required during the hours the center is closed, you are asked to contact the raproom in the campus center (5782700). The student volunteer in the raproom will get you in touch with a counsellor. There will be counsellors from the center on call during the entire vacation period.
SECURITY
Security will remain available on the usual 24-hour-a-day basis during the entire Christmas vacation. Call local 3211, or 744-6111.
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HI-LINE Hi-line will not be in operation from december 20 to january 4. It will re-open january 5 at 7pm. Students are asked to call the campus center 578-2700, raproom,-, or the campus center turnkey at local 3426 and he will get you in touch with a raproom volunteer or a professional counsellor if you wish. FOOD SERVICES There Christmas
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in raproom experiencing the usual exam-time hangups. She will be available monday, tuesday and thursday afternoons from 1: 30 to 4 : 30. The raproom is located next to the main office in the campus center.
Joan Walsh of counselling services, who specializes in study skills, will be in the campus center raproom next week to assist students who are having study and reading problems. Have a talk with her if you are
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to crush poth&tds
While talk of legalizing marijuana continues, the local courts continue to hand out fairly heavy sentences for offenses. Five Kitchener-Waterloo residents of university age have recently been sentenced to three to six months in jail for trafficking in
marijuana and hash. At least six university students are awaiting trial on charges of possession. Most of the charges were laid as a result of undercover agents, who frequented the university area.
Draw to encouruge
stuff members
About 1400 non-academic staff members are eligible for membership in the staff association. A month after the organization’s first general meeting, approximately 220 have signed up for membership and the 75 cents-amonth fee.
To encourage new members, a turkey draw will be held thursday 18 december, with all who have joined the association by 17 december eligible to win. Prospective members should contact Ken Crofts at physicalplant and planning.
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Due to a shortage of over 300 applicants, four of the five floors of habitat’s west quadrant will be closed next term.
This marks the first time in uniwat’s history that a residence has had a shortage this large.
Day ctrre center design The setting up of a day care center for the children of uniwat married students and faculty has been undertaken by the women’s club. -One possible location for the tenter has been found in a north-campus farmhouse, but the existing building on the site requires some renovation .
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MONDAY
FREE movies. “Sinbad the sailor” with Douglas Fairbank also “Laughing gas” with Charlie Chaplin. 1Opmand lam, campus center great hall. TUESDAY
FREE movies. “Crossed swords” with Errol Flynn, also “In the park” with Charlie Chaplin. 1Opmand lam, campus center great hall. WEDNESDAY
BEER and conversation night. 9pm, city hotel. BADMINTON club. Ten courts available, varsity teams now working out. 7-llpm, phys-ed complex. FREE movies. “Mark of the gorilla” with Jonnie Weismueller, also “Hits of the past” with Charlie Chaplin. 1Opmand lam, campus center great hall. THURSDAY
FREE movies. “Magnetic monster” with Richard Carlson and “The champion” with Charlie Chaplin. 1Opm and lam, campus center great hall.
COLLEGE-career fellowship coffeehouse. 8:30pm, first baptist church, 19 John street, Waterloo.
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GEOGRAPHY and planning club films: “The dirty dozen” and “Point blank” starring Lee Marvin. Admission $1,75qfor members. Tickets on sale at theater box office and at door. 8pm, AL116. SHADOW of a pale horse, presented by tempo theater. Admission $2.50 general, $1.50students. 8pm, arts theater. FREE movies. “Snake pit” with Olivia deHavilland and “The fireman” with Charlie Chaplin, 1Opm and lam, campus center great hall. .--
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DON’T miss Marat/Sade. Tickets at creative arts box office. General $1students 50~ 8:30pm, new humanities theater. DANCE with The looking glass. Licenced. Admission $1.50,$1for members. Presented by geography and planning club. 8:30-I2pm, food services festival room and carnival \ room. SHADOW of a pale horse, presented by tempo theater.. Admission $2.50 general, $1.50students. 8pm, arts theater. GEOGRAPHY and planning club films: ‘The dirty dozen” and “Point blank” starring Lee Marvin. Admission $1,756for members. Tickets on sale at theater box office and at door. 8pm, AL116.
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DON’T miss Marat/Sade. Tickets at creative arts box office. General $1 students 50 cents. BADMINTON club. Ten courts available, varsity teams now working out. 7-llpm, phys-ed complex. SHADOW of a pale horse, presented by tempo theater. Admission $2.50 general, $1.50students. 8pm, arts theater. FREE mobile chest x-ray in rest area in front of physic building. Please complete a card before entering the van. Sponsored by the Freeport sanatorium. 9-12and l-4 :30pm. GEOGRAPHY and planning club films: “The dirty dozen” and “Point blank” starring Lee Marvin. Admission $1 756for members. Tickets on sale at theater box office and at door. 8pm, AL116.
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The bookstore set up a display of books on university education and new teaching methods. Most of the books wereamerican. . . Mathews and Steele would call it cultural genocide.
Recommendations Members of the campus center board were told monday that most of the sub-committee’s recommendations to administration president Howard P&h were accepted. recommendation - that One two turnkeys be on duty at all implemented imtimes- was mediately following the meet-
Matthews Bert Matthews, second of the presidential search mittee, will speak at 4pm in the arts theater on the
ing with .Petch. At Petch’s request, toured the subcommittee the building and listed furnishings which have proved ’ to be unsuitable for use in the center. The recommendations will be forwarded to Petch. In other business, @ funds were approved
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Matthews, currently university of Guelph academic vicepresident, followed a schedule similar to the first candidate, Tom McLeod. The remaining open sessions for faculty, staff and students
granted
today
to meet Matthews are 2: 40 this afternoon in the social science faculty lounge and after his address in the arts faculty lounge (ML 104). The name of the third candidate, which according to the committee will be the final candidate, will be annnounced early next week. His visit-will be thursday and friday december 18 and 19.
U of T reiegzts student TORONTO (CUP)-The university of Toronto’s arts and science faculty tuesday rejected the principle of student parity in decisions regarding hiring, firing or tenure of professors. The decision, justified on the grounds that parity “sets up a mechanical principle of political equality, ” casts doubt on the relevance of U of T’s commission on university government report, issued with much fan-fare October 16. The CUG report, product of 10 months of deliberations by four faculty four students, and U of T administration president Claude Bissell, proposed huge structural changes in university government with the avowed purpose of heading off future student dissent. While the report recommended in hiring and student parity firing decisions, it deliberately
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OTTAWA (CUP)-University of Ottawa student council president Allan Bock monday charged that bilingualism at the 4500-student campus is a “failure, ” and agreed with charges in a Quebec newspaper that the policy is a “disguised road to assimilation.” The article in the province-wide weekly, said the university’s Quebec-Presse, two-language policy hides the process of assimilation of french-speaking students, and calls on the education department to establish a Hull branch of the universite de Quebec to serve french
reflooring of the games lounge with quarry tile. 0 food-services manager Bob Mudie announced new coffeeshop hours, effective january 5. If the coffeeshop staff is agreeable, it will be open from 9 ‘am to 11: 45 pm monday to thursday , 9am to 4:30 pm friday, and loam to 3: 15 pm Saturday. l Because of differences in interpretation of the sleeping policy, a more, straightforward policy was requested. After lengthy discussion among the _ turnkeys present, a statement was issued that as a general policy the campus center board does not allow sleeping in the campus center. Exceptions to the rule are to be agreed upon by the turnkeys, and submitted to the next board meeting for the board’s approval. l r
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left open the question of student at the departrepresentation mental level of U of T, stating the question should be handled by departmental committees. Critics have said the document opens the way for “faculty power” at U of T, while leaving unresolved the question of _student power ’ at the classroom level. The arts and science faculty, by a vote of 122 to 52, parrotted a motion passed november 12 by U of T’s association of teaching staff, which also rejected the principle of student parity, while “welcoming” student participation in hiring, firing and tenure decisions. The ATS stated that the final decision on the sensitive topics must still rest with the academic staff of the university. Full student parity in departmental decision-making is still
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Daly backs status-quo against H&Dennis “Today in order to be with present way the subject of spaceit, you have to be against it,” and man is being handled. -The said James Daly in presenting curriculum tells each school to an appeal for the- status-quo go into depth on any specific asand against the radical critical ’ pect of this subject, according to analysis such as in the Hallthe choosing of the class. Dennis report . The McMaster This would mean anything prof was speaking at professionfrom life-support systems to the al development day friday. laws of planetary motion. “How are we to know where a student His basic assumption was that is at?” asked Daly. the university will keep its tra. He suggested that as a solution, ditional grading system while should do the gradthe high school moves to a universities ing for the high schools by set“chaotic” situation where recexams to reords do not show the degree of ting up entrance place the grade 13 departmenadvancement attained in each tals and highschool liaison ofsubject. ficers that keep track of the He gave an example of what quality of students and teachers he fears by explaining the in the highschools.
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beyond signs, documents and the presence of two language groups on campus. U of 0 is one of two universities in Ottawa : the other, rapidly-expanding Carleton university , is unilingual-in English-and is generally considered to cater to a higher-income constituency than U of 0. Despite its bilingualism ,policy, many U of 0 textbooks are available only in english, according to rector Roger Guindon. So are entire faculties: for example U of O’s faculty of medcine.
Although Guindon would make no official comment on the Quebec-Press article, he said that many people who “seize on the faults in the university’s language structure” fail to realize” the situation is not just black and white.” Material and financial necessities do not always make bilingualism easy to practise, he said. Guidon said he has received no in-~ dication that the Quebec government wants to replace the university ‘with a separate Hull university are ‘ ‘nothing new”. friday
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l implications suggest arrangements would have to be met to ‘ ‘generate self-learning and direction in teaching”; l mastery of retrievable technology information to achieve what you want when you want it; l the reduction of repetition; l for teachers: that they become masters of tools of technology in order to assimilate experience in class and be more of a guide; l for students: self-learning will be on a continuous basis and they will measure their own behaviour relative to themselves and to society; l for school: self-learning should be more into the home; l for business: it should have direct participation in educational process ; l for finance: much more money for larger institutions and research. Two different films noted the product of alienation from the present educational system in adapting to the self-learning orientation : \ The teacher said, “I don’t know what my role is.” The student asked: What grade am I in?” Answer: “There aren’t any grades. ” Student: “How will I know where I am?”
At professional development day, James Daly- predicted problems because of Hall-Dennis-inspired chaos in the highschools.
virtually non-existent in Canada: the sociology department at the Regina campus of the university of Saskatchewan is the only known outpost. The student parity issue iay behind the 41-day strike at Simon Fraser university, where the SFU administration clamped down on the department of political science, sociology and anthropology when a majority of department faculty gave students an equal voice in all PSA affairs. The strike which resulted from the administration’s action ended november 4 with eight professors suspended and hundreds of students left without academic credit or financial support for the semester. Twelve PSA teaching assistants, all heavily involved in the strike, were fired by the SFU administra tion november 27.
people’in western Quebec. “Administration’s boast that we have a bilingual university is too optimistic from my point of view,” Rock said”. What we have right. now is not bilingualism but two unilingual groups in the same institution.” “I spent four years in arts and one year in law at this university and I ‘know aperson could get a complete education here -without ever coming into real contact with the other language group. ” Rock said earlier that in many cases U a of O’s idea of bilingualism does not go
must change
Uniwat is a good-‘example of a “creative organizational response” because of its semester system, said Alex McCuaig, guest speaker last friday at the faculty workshop with the Onario department of education. Keeping in mind that the public interest if best served when ‘ ‘community assumptions and expectations are explicit” for communication, he forecast the following : l population increase l greater redistribution and urbanization, with the possibility of doubling ; l instant communication at home level ; l ideas becoming more in conflict with a greater proportion of young people ; l improvement of transportation ; l the work force will increase one third as new occupations develop ; l productivity of individuals will increase _the economic level with the advent of effectiveness of organizational and operational procedures; l human constant will become pattern for basic urges as in past; l government will be closer to individual, but the people will feel further away thus there will be an acute problem of schism ;
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was so vague and indefinite as WASHINGTON (GINS)-Patrick to be unconstitutional, and added, Cardinal O’Boyle tuesday de“There has been inckeasing innounced as “exterminative medication in decisions of the sudicine” a proposal by a mayor’s. preme court of the United States committee that the District of that as a secular matter, a woColumbia general hospital be man’s liberty and right of privacy allowed to perform an abortion extends to family, marriage and on any woman who requests it. sex matters, and may well include “I doubt that any concern for the right to remove an unwanted the poor underlies this proposal,” child, at least in the early stages he said. of pregnancy. ” “What is to be extended to the The mayor’s committee repoor with this program of aborcommended “an immediate end tion is not a matter of preventive to the requirement of psychiatric medicine nor is it a matter of references or any other hospitalcurative medicine. It is a new imposed restriction on the right branch of medicine-exterminato obtain an abortion”. tive medicine. ’ ’ O’Boyle stated this recommenThe mayor’s committee, comdation marks the beginning of posed of more than 20 doctors the ‘final solution to the welfare and citizens, said on december 1 problem. that a U.S. district court decision “It is exactly the same kind of permitting licenced doctors to solution as Hitler found to the perform abortions should be he said. implemented immediately. . I jewish problem,” “It is worth noticing that both A ruling was handed down on of these really are problems innovember 10 by U.S. district sofar as they have been created Gerhard Gesell, court judge by deep and long-lasting inthat any “competent licenced justices: anti-Semitism in Hitpractitioner of medicine” may ler’s case, social and economic perform an abortion in Washinginjustice-especially racial diston. crimination-in our present siThe decision is almost certain tuation.” , to be appealed to the supreme The cardinal, archbishop of court. It has national implicathe Washington diocese, long tions-it strikes down a 1901 law has been a vociferous opponent banning abortions except when of abortion. necessary to save a pregnant woman’s life or health. “It is not a matter of religious bias to be against the killing of O’Boyle stated, “Nothing that infants already born, to be against any judge can say could make the killing of the sick, the aged, truly just the slaughter of the I am against killing the insane. innocents that would be unloosenhuman beings under any of these ed by abortion on request.” circumstances, and I am simi“Abortion is murder. That is larly against killing them merely the issue. ” because they are unborn and The judge had ruled the law unwanted.”
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RENTON, Washington (CINS)In a recent letter to Washington governor Dan Evans, Dr. A. Frans Koome claimed he has terminated 140 unwanted pregnancies this year. The reads
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The result of his crusade to change the state’s abortion laws and his open defiance of those laws has been a legal and political row. Last week his office was searched by the local police chief, and records of some patients were seized. The chief admitted that “the patients involved would be reluctant to testify unless one of them develops problems. He’s providing a service nobody else provides and the hell of it is, it’s illegal. ’ ’ Abortion is forbidden in Washington state except to preserve the life or health of the mother. A reform bill died in a legislative . committee last year, but may be brought up again in january. Koome is a 40-year-old general practitioner and father of two. “The problem is_ one which has existed almost since Adam and Eve, ” he said. “And with our archaic laws these people are for the most part forced into the hands of nonmedical people with the
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dire consequences that often follow. “By doing it on the sly without access to skilled medical people with the proper facilities, these women often find themselves undergoing the operation in back rooms with damaging results.” The governor replied to Koome’s letter saying that if the statements were true, the county prosecutor and medical disciplinary board should take action. The prosecutor, however, said the letter to the governor would not be sufficient grounds for taking action against Koome and said the next step was to find out whether potential witnesses would testify. But authorities who interviewed the patients on monday found no one willing to’swear out a complaint. Koome said the seizure of the records “is not germane to the issue. The issue is whether the state or a woman and her physician should decide to terminate a pregnancy.” Aware that he may have jeopardized his career, Koome added,. “At least I have created, so far, more of an awareness of the tremendous underground problem that exists. “My main purpose is to make as many people as possible aware of this problem-particularly state legislators and state government officials. ”
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Twas the week. before Christmas and all through uniwat the powers deciding we really know not what; the candidates all had carefully and acceptable to us was nary a one-
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To which we can only say: you can’t cut a cake with a lawn mower; you can’t go swimming in a goldfish bowl; and you can’t keep a cow in a parakeet cage. But then that’s what happens when an administration president or a potential one tries to do something completely alien to his role-participate in a democratic process. While the masses are always slow to raise their consciousness, the process is inevitable and the approach depicted in the cartoon below will no doubt replace earthy dolts like McLeod. We will resume our bemused observances in the new year. Pax vobiscum.
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Gokfbrick won’t, ACUPULCO( staff F‘Hell no, I won’t go.” said Aryan Affairs Commission chancellor H.D. Goldbrick monday when he received a two-foot-long telex message from the founding unifiat branch of the AAC. Goldbrick said he enjoys real power too much to take a demeaning bureaucratic post, such as president of the uniwat administration. He went on to say that he had much more important work to do initiating new -programs for the Aryan Affairs Commission.
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“We have important work to inititiate in new programs,” he said. Goldbrick is expected to return to Waterloo early in 1970 to reactivate his regime, after almost a year of dormancy. I would rather refer to it as a he said Year of consolidation,” He hinted t.he uniwat AAC may engage in a presidential search itself. “After all, the boys that pull uniwat’s strings have been ,
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CAUT inquiry MONTREAL (CUP j---The canadian association of university teachers began its investigation of Loyola college’s San thanam affair monday-but from a distance. A three-man CAUT team, which examined the Loyola administration’s dismissal of nuclear physics professor S.A. Santhanam without stated reason, held its hearings at the universite de Montreal rather than at Loyola. The reason : the Loyola ad-’ ministration declared december _ 2 it would only co-operate with CAUT under three conditions : . l that the college be given the names of the three persons sitting on the committee; * l that CAUT tell the administration the names of all persons who would appear at the, hearings ; l that representatives of the Loyola administration be allowed to attend any session CAUT would hold on the campus. “Intimidation,” said CAUT national secretary Alwyn Berland last friday in rejecting the administration demands. The third condition he said, was “unprecedented, cumbersome, impractical and flatly unacceptable. ” The Loyola administration ret
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sponded with a release which said the CAUT hearings would “violate the basic rights of justice” if administration demands were not met. According to administration lawyer T.P. Slattery, CAUT would be acting both as investigator and as judge if it held the Santhanam inquiry behind closed doors. CAUT is now acting on behalf of Santhanam himself, in the investigation, as the Loyola faculty association last month withdrew its support of binding CAUT arbitration in the case following election of a new association executive. Santhanam was not rehired by the Loyola administration for the 1969-70 academic year; no reason was given for his dismissal. His case has kept Loyola in an uproar for the past five months, as students and faculty charged undue administration interference in academic affairs, and demanded CAUT intervene in the case. There is a possibility that the CAUT investigation could end in the censuring of the college by the faculty pressure group; if so, it would only be the third time in 19 years that such an action was taken. A CAUT censure would mean that the college would be put on a professional blacklist by CAUT: all faculty would be told of the action and informed that CAUT did not feel Loyola was a suitable place for employment. The censure would also be listed in all academic journals. Only two Canadian universities have so far merited the censure: Simon Fraser university was blacklisted in 1968 for inter&en& by its board of governors in academic affairs ; while last year the university of New Brunswick was censured for its handling of the case’ of physics professor Norman Strax, active in a student library protest there.
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WASHINGTON (CUPI)-Burying the federal trade commission in a blizzard of legal briefs, five students at the George Washington university law school are demanding recognition as an adversary, representing all consumers, in a case involving the Campbell Soup company and its advertising agency. The five-calling themselves ;OUP, students opposed to unfair practices-are members of a law class in unfair business practices as GWU. The FTC has set december 18 for a hearing on whether the students should be allowed to represent consumers in a challenge of rulings made by the commission regarding a televized group advertisement. Case in point is a television ad in which the company seeded the bottom of a bowl with clear glass marbles so vegetables, stayed at the top, mak,ing it appear there were more vegetables in the bowl. Normally, the FTC simply orders the company to cease the practice involved and later accepts a consent order in which the company agrees to stop but disavows any wrongdoing. If the commission yields to the SOUP demands it will set precedents for the handling of future cease and desist cases. SOUP contends the FTC was too gentle with Campbell, and that the rulings are designed to “keep the ignorant ignorant” rather than protecting the public. 6
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A former Montreal police veteran of 12 years called for a temporary halt to. the prosecution of mari juana smokers until a commission on the nonmedical use of drugs has reported its findings. Ex-sergeant George Springate, who quit the Montreal force last summer to complete his law studies, made the suggestion while speaking to Waterloo Lutheran university students monday. “I’m no expert on drugs,” Springa te said, “but it now seems so likely that thexe prosecutions will be dropped that parliament would be wise to declare a moratorium. ” It may well be that a person found smoking pot six months from now will go free. “What then about the criminal records of those being charged and convicted now ?” he wondered. Springate did not suggest a moratorium on trafficking in marijuana.
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The alienation and contrast of a minority people in an affluent society was revealed in engineering student Tony Manamin’s talk tuesday sponsored by the engineering society. Priorites as seen by indian people are economic development (means by which basic needs are met, independent of welfare), improvements (plumbing, hydro, waterworks) and freedom (as a people). As conditions vary, the priorities are adapted to meet the immediate need. Unlike the french in Quebec, the indian people have no nationalistic movement. The presen t nation wide organiza tion of indians has been a result of such a labelling on the part of the white man. Each tribe: De Sotos, Crees, Ojibways, Oddawas, and Sioux consider themselves as a people unto themselves. With the coming of the western european to North America, the white man came with the intent to civilize and christianize the savage.
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He felt that there was no cornparison between drugs and liquor anyway since “most people take drugs for one reason only and that is to get high-people drink alcohol for the taste. ” When asked if he enjoyed the taste he replied, “Speaking for myself, very much. ’ ’ When he tires of defending the law as it is, he said that he only enforces the law and it’s up to people to change it. Students then brought to his attention that. there are many out-
dated laws not now enforced because they are considered out of date. In Toronto registering your horse at the hotel is mandatory by law and some municipalities still have a law against hanging men’s and women’s underwear together on the line. The point was made that there exists much *flexibility between the law and how it is enforced. Kingston said,” Our main concern is not with the responsible adults but with the juvenile adults but with the brains to know when to cease”. When questioned why the police act with such severity on youth as it there was a’different law for young people, he replied, “The older ones are harder to least appears unjust. catch and besides when we create He cited the example of Monsuch places as the campus centreal mayor Drapeau’s city lotter which are geared to youth, tery which has been ruled ilthey become most susceptible. ” legal by the Quebec superior He felt that the least the campus court but continues pending apcenter could do is keep out any peal. one that isn’t old enough to look It makes you wonder whether - like a university student. the big guy gets away with He concluded, “Most cops things and only the little man don’t come to groups like this faces the full force of the law, because we get centered out Springate said. and made to look like fools. ”
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He disagreed with students who said that pot parties are being busted because of “police harassment. ” The decision whether to investigate and prosecute is not up to the police, Springate said. It’s the responsibility of a-parliament. Several students repeatedly mentioned arrests by constable John Pratt of the Kitchener RCMP detachment as they said the local example of narchassling.
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young girl asked her father to fuck her and attempts to jump through the front window.” He recognized alcohol as a serious social problem but since “it is engrained in our culture”, attempts like prohibition are futile. “Marijuana isn’t and it should be kept that way”. He cited India as an example of a sick society that explores the mental consciousness while poverty and starvation surround them, and he blamed this on hemp.
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Homecoming will come early in 1970-about four months early. Sandboxer Larry Burko has proposed that homecoming happen during the traditional time for summer weekend. “It’s a more logical time for an activity called homecoming. All the students who are offcampus in the summer can come home,” said Burko.
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In the name of progress, europeans took the rights to the land- by signing treaties which in effect separated the indian from the land. The reserve . system which through the indian act ceded land to the government had the intent, as witnessed by Sir Francis Bondhead, to remove the indians from the whites since the indians had picked up many of the white man’s vices and let the indian die out-out of sight, and in peace. A present-day example was of the time when the task force for the indian act was in Kenora, all the drunk indians were taken off the streets put into jail or shipped to their home reserve. The reserve system allowed the indian people to exist as a people, but with its limited ecomit base, made it susceptible to missionaries, welfare and handouts. Since many Indians left the reserve to serve in the two world wars, the soldiers experienced the world beyond the reserve, and they were no longer satisfied with mere basic survival.
All nicotine addicts and polluted-air breathers should visit the tuberculosis prevention vice van in front of the physics building fbr a chest X-ray. l%e van leaves today.
contrust A majority of indian people have migrated to the cities for economic and educational reasons. But the move conflicted with their inherent way of life: the individual advancement (economic, social, political) of the Canadian culture conflicted with the indian’s concept of group improvement through individual deeds, sharing. If Indians have been assimilated into the Canadian society, it has happened to individuals in the group. Those people who negate the continuance of reserves have been those who have left the reserve for 20 to 30 years. A few artists who are working, earlier had to return to the reserve for awhile in order to break away from the pattern of existence of drinking and fighting. The‘ educational system erases indian attitudes so that there are many who exist as non-en--.. tities. Many kids are disappointed when the incentive to get education to get ahead does not meet their expectations. Some
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of in&ns return to reserves, others have remained in urban centers since their skills are not employable on a reserve. Too, education has no correlation to leadership.. Jean Chretien, the ministerof indian affairs, and northern development , betrayed the indians. A task force travelled to various indian communities and groups to consult with the indians on how the situation then might be changed. . A white paper was ‘presented disregarding all suggestions made by the indian people. The paper contradicted all the recommendations made by the indian people. Now the presence of the white paper (a paper in which one of the suggestions is that the reserves should be abolished) threatens the inherent life style of a culture. The reserve is where the indian way of life can be lived with a minimum of stress from the dominant people. Thus there has been shift from an earlier priority of trying to make reserves economically friday
viable, to concern in maintaining a system which allows a people to live as a cultural entity. Initially the indian leaders wanted the treaties to be recognized and then proceeded to change some things in the indian act, implied by the abolishment of reserves. The white paper is a conscious attempt to remove the indian people. In the question period, suggestions made by the indian panel were : l that money spent on welfare should be spent instead to bring resources of industries on reserves ; l that the white man cannot directly help the indian, only the indian can help himself; 0 that mortgages of indian land to help get financial aid defeats the purpose of the aid; X l that the present situation is ironical since the indian cannot expand or start a new reserve because the indian act prohibits him from buying land; l , that education should be modelled relative; to the cultural differences of the indian. 12 december
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REGINA (CUP)-Jeff Goodman sociology lecturer fired by the university of Saskatchewan board of governors in november, will teach a class at Regina campus next semester after all. The Regina students union agreed in a meeting december 3 to hire Goodman to teach a class, “The practical sociology of Regina, ” in the spring semester. The union is currently negotiating with the board to have Goodman’s class recognized as credit towards a bachelor of arts degree. Student council academic
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Goodman is one of a group of social science teachers at Regina under constant harassment from the administration for the radical content of their classes and for their attacks on the grading system. Ellis said it is “ludicrous (that the students union should be forced to take over a function that is clearly the administration’s responsibility.”
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For The Best in Submarine Has it ever occured to you that we have just ’ passed the 200th anniversary of the birth of Napolean Bonaparte, the man who became famous for losing a glove? Well, we have and to make things ‘worse all we did about it her at uniwat was nothing. Well at least PP and P was kind enough to leave enough snow around so that those of use who wanted could go to the north campus and re-enact the historic retreat from Moscow. But of course nobody bothered and we’ll have to wait another vear before we can do it. I guess PP and P will haul out their snow removal equipment over the holidays and get rid of it all. * * * * Seeing’s how this is my last chance to wish you all season’s greetings, I feel its only fair to announce that I will not return to these pages hallowed in the same condition as I leave today. I have taken a fancy to a young buck from the village, and he ate it and liked it so much that I will give you the recipe. - 112 tsp tobasco pars/e y rhubarb 12 oz. scotch.
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KINGSTON (CUP)-Charges of political blackmail and police interference in academic affairs have been raised at Queen’s university in the case of a chemical engineering student who was reportedly ordered to make a choice. between his political activity and his university program. The Queen’s academic senate december 3 agreed to investigate the case of Charles Edwards, a PhD candidate in chemical engineering, who was told by his academic supervisor that politics and chemical engineering did not mix at Queen’s. Edwards, a member of Kingston’s free socialist movement, a student group, had chaired a seminar on graduate student employment in Canada, and charged that american’control of canadian industry was a major factor in post-graduate unemployment. In a regular meeting with
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doctoral supervisor Henry Becker last month, Edwards was given a virtual ultimatum: cease political activity or leave the department. Becker also told Edwards that officials in the Queen’s administration “did not like him” and would be glad to see him go. Becker later said Edwards had been “neglecting his work very badly, ’ ’ and was backed up by department chairman R.H. Clarke. But Clarke later told Edwards his work was “fine,” and added he would be sorry to see the student leave the university. Clarke told a reporter from the Kingston community newspaper This paper belongs to the people that a member of the royal Canadian mounted police visited the department early in november making inquiries about the loyalty of another engineering student. The RCMP officer also made
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claimed inquiries about Edwards, and asked Clarke to give the RCMP information about the student “at a later date.” Clarke agreed and told the officer “I am willing to talk to you about anyone. ” Wednesday, the Queen’s senate agreed to create a five-man committee representing Edwards, the chemical engineering department, administration principal J.J. Deutsch, and the Queen’s student council. The committee was ordered to report on the case before the senate’s next meeting, in january. In a press release last wed&sday, Deutsch said it would be improper for him to comment on the case before it had been dealt with by the “proper authority,” but added “there is no policy at Queen’s university that could lead to a student being dismissed for political reasons. ”
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Coach Tom Watt of the U of T blues’ hockey team was unable to pull off a win last friday night even with all his psychological maneuvers. They began with the blues showing up wearing their white sweaters; OQAA rules say that the home team’s color is white. So the warriors wore gold and then Toronto ‘started the game with their second line. And, of course, Watt stuck to his old trick of changing lines just as the puck was about to be dropped. But the blues would have needed a lot more psychology to beat the warriors friday. In fact, they were lucky to get the 3-3 tie. The warriors should have
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The uniwat warrior and athena teams swimming and diving completed their pre-Christmas schedule in London and Buffalo. The athenas opened their season with a. third-place finish behind Guelph and Toronto in the invitational meet at ’ McMaster. In the succeeding weeks they lost to Toronto by ten points and defeated the State university of New York 66-30 at Buffalo. The warriors opened against and Toronto, last McMaster year’s OQAA champs, in a double .dual meet at Toronto. The team set two team records but lost 56-40 and SO-22 respectively. The annual OQAA relays revealed that, when at full strength, the warriors could be a team to be reckoned with as they finished fifth of eight. The trip to Niagara university left an impression on the team as they led the purple eagles but lacked the depth to win the meet. On Saturday, the warriors went to Western where they lost 6346 to the second best OQAA team. On the basis of the early season it would appear that both of our teams have definitely improveconsiderable shown ment and can be expected to place higher than last season. - The diving teams (Marg Brown, Ann Stiles; Mike Guerriero, Lester Newby, and Brian Hilko), won three competitions and lost only one during this period. The strong showing of these divers will definitely improve our record as diving represents 16 and 24 points in dual 646
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won the game, quite possibly by 3-f or 310. The warriors went ahead twice in the first period on goals by Ian McKegney and Dave Rudge. McKegney was able to catch the lower right hand corner to beat Toronto goalie, Cole, while the blues were shorthanded. About four-and-a-half minutes later Buda, of Toronto, backhanded the puck through Ian Scott’s legs, to make it 1-l. Rudge scored from Bob Thorpe by sweeping around the Toronto net and quickly shooting the puck past Cole. The second goal by Toronto came with only six seconds left as Laurent received a bad warrior pass from Ken Laidlaw that gave him a breakaway and he made no mistakes.
The warriors could easily have been leading 2-O but for a few bad mistakes. And this time the opposition capitalized on them. However the warriors played their best hockey in this period as the game slowed considerably in the latter’two periods. The second period was the only one in which Toronto outshot Waterloo (8-4) and outscored them. The third Toronto goal didn’t seem to go in but the It hit ref called it a goal. Scott’s stick, then his leg and dropped on the goal line behind him. The goal judge seemed a little quick on the trigger as the entire puck did not appear to cross the line. In any case it counted, and. the warriors had to score at least one other. They had several chances with a sprawling Toronto goaltender but none materialized as goals. The third period was similar and championship meets resto the second, slow and at times pectively. unexciting, except that the warrThe athenas have broken 12 iors got the lone goal. It awoke Lee team records this year. the crowd which had been rather Fraser, Lois Wilson, Joyce Mathquiet since the first period-you’d Helen Morgan, Cheryl ison, be quiet too if you had to arrive Smith, Marg Handford and Betsy two hours before gametime to Johnson have all contributed sit down where you can see-as to the records. . Bob Reade fired a beautiful Immediately after the holidays shot for the goal. the athenas host an international Reade hit the lower right invitational meet with up to four corner after taking a pass from american entrants plus the top Savo Vujovic for a two-man teams in our league. break. The goal was probably The warriors open their dual the highlight of the games for meet season here on january 10 the warrior fans. against Toronto and Windsor. The blues certainly didn’t earn George Roy broke At Niagara, the tie and coach Watt was natwo of their pool records winning turally pleased with it.’ He felt the individual medley and -200 they had played hard but it didn’t butterfly and added a 51 second look that way on the ice. The leg in the 400 freestyle relay. blues appeared almost too reDoug Lorriman won three of laxed. the most difficult races in college As for the warriors, coach racing at London. These were McKillop felt it was their best the 1000 freestyle, 500 freestyle, effort yet. He admitted there and part of the freestyle relay were two mistakes that cost team which won and broke the the warriors a win. team record. Cole, in the Toronto nets, did Considerable improvement has a good job and was another imbeen shown by veterans Brian portant factor in the outcome Bachert and Jim Frank in the being a tie. backstroke and individual medBut it was the first period in Warren Page and ley events, which the warriors were all over Brian Cartiledge in the sprint the blues. The blues-were slow freestyle and Hans Bongertman and unimpressive; if the warriors and Bill Flint in the breasthad skated a little more strongly, stroke events. forechecked more often and Both teams practice during hustled a bit more, Toronto the holidays and reconvene for would never have been able to group workouts on monday, 5 come back. Workouts go january at 4pm. As it was the warriors slowed monday to friday at 4pm. Anyto the blues pace and the game one still interested in turning out lost some of consequently for the team is encouraged to its excitement. come to practice. (This includes The blues have the players those on work terms this term. > and will be tougher next time as New people should turn out five injured players should be early as the athenas have four back. But three of friday’s first weeks to prepare for their champeriod by the warriors should. pionship and the warriors six. be able to handle that.
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Warrior basketball fans have been fortunate over the past three years to have been able to watch one of the country’s top college players, Jaan Laaniste. Laaniste came to Waterloo in 1966 from East York collegiate where he was a city of Toronto all-star and a track arid field star. He succeeded in making the varsity basketball team in that first year. Last year, in his second season, Jaan excelled-as he won the scoring championship of the OQAA with a 17.4 point-a-game average. His shooting from the floor was 37.9 percent/and his free-throw percentage was 67.3. Last season’s accomplishments are impressive but the warrior coach Mike Lavelle has set higher objectives for Jaan this year. This is because Lavelle is convinced that Jaan has still never played to his capabilities. The three aims for the season are an average of 30 points per game, a shooting average of 45 percent and a free-thrbw percentage of 80. Jaan’s performance this year to date has shown that there was
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The ‘pucking-about’ warriors remained undefeated after getting by McMaster 4-2 monday night in Ha,milton. They had the same problem, however, of getting up for this game as they had in their first appearance against the McMaster marlins. There was no scoring in the first period, which saw the warriors playing down to McMaster’s style. One player who really felt the marlins’ presence was Roger Kropf, who the marlins seemed to be lining up all evening. Every now and then a warrior would show a flash of hidden brilliance (Ian McKegney seemed inclined to do this most of the game, scoring once and assiting on the other goals), but good passing and play-making was seldom approached. Forechecking, whi$h is the warriors ’ stronghold, was at a low. The second period was similar, perhaps a bit of an improvement by the warriors, but McMaster was still abel to keep pace and match goal-for-goal.
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to the fans’ lips-even a laugh here and there. ’ Bob Thorpe managed to get a slashing penalty for hitting the ice with his stick; his ensuing anger also earned him a misconduct. Jim Weber played his sharpest game of the season, making several saves that proved valuable. Ian McKegney was the real standout, particularly in the first period, when everyone else didn’t seem to know waht to do. The warriors weren’t skating, hitting or passing well. Their positional play was adequate, but with poor passing not much could come of it. The powerplay and penalty‘killing were both sporadic. At one time they could maintain good pressure, and the next moment the four marlin players might be swarming around Weber. Generally penalty-killing was well-executed, though costly mistakes were made. f The warriors’ last game before Christmas is tonight against Eestern. -Western. . has a goals-againstfor a high-scoring
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Ken Laidlaw finally got the puck past marlin goalie Bayliss, who replaced injured Iniss in the first period. The marlins had opened the s&ring on a powerplay when Don Locke’s shot deflected over Weber’s shoulder. Laidlaw’s goal was a sharp pass play involving McKegney and Rudge when the marlins were two men short. The last minute of the second period saw both teams score ; McKegney on a shot that bounced passed marlin goalie Bayliss. The warriors, who were worried in the first two periods, expended a bit more effort to score two goals early in the last period. Baun whammed the puck into the open net after Knopf had fired pointblank at the goal. At 3: 22 the warriors got a goal with the teams four-a-side as Rudge fired a low shot from inside the blueline which Bayliss was able to only partially stop. Later in the third period,. the warriors got a fifth goal which the referee decided had not gone in (why did the goalie have to slide it out with hi:; glove? ). Generally the officiating was bad enough to bring a smile
bagbitem and added two more to their own score. Village east went undefeated to win the co-ed curling bonspiel beating second-place frosh math and third-place village west. With the 14 fall competitive events now concluded, the Fryer trophy race is as follows: St. Jerome’s leads with 272 points, habitat has 203 and one-half and phys-ed 199. The top three teams in the
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Last Saturday, habitat won the Condon cup for intramural basketball by defeating St. Jerome’s 40-29. Habitat’s dominance of the game by the use of presses was shown by the fact that St. Jerome’s never got a shot at the basket for the first eight minutes. Habitat also forced them to shoot from outside (the key, that is, not the gym). The game was somewhat spoiled by bad refereeing and calls. In hockey sunday upper en-__buy
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room for betterment. His shootto be successful in making the ing at the foul line has gone up n? tional team. to 72 percent, that from the Next week, Jaan is beginning floor to just over 38 percent and special practices with coach Lavelle, in addition to the team He has averaged 29 points per game is all the more amazing workouts, to wdrk on his different when it is realized that Jaan has areas. These are dribbling, esplayed only about three,-quarters pecially with his left hand, of each game. learning when to take shots and In spite of these improvements rebounding, for example followJaan’s outstanding accomplishing his shots to the basket. ment this year has been that he There never has been a representative of uniwat on the leads the team in steals. It is very rare to see a high scorer national team and it would be who can play outstanding defan important achievement for ensive basketball as well. Jaan. Incidentally, if Jaan passes Probably the most important his 30 point-per-game objective aspect of a player when he conduring the regular OQAA seassiders playing international ball on, he will have a chance to is his dedication to the game. break the league break the league When you are competing with scoring american stars who practice five record of 314 points held by Dave West. hours a day all year long, you The main reason that Jaan must be committed to the game is pushing toward these objecto succeed. ‘tives is that he wants to play Jaan’s keeness for extra pracbasketball on the in terna tional tice seems to indicate that he level for the Canadian national , is able to recognize the necessity team. of dedication. ‘This newly formed national Warrior fans should consider team is the first to try to include themselves fortunate that Jaan the best players in the country Laaniste is on their side, especially rather than a smattering of senior if he puts two hot halves together ballplayers. Jaan must improve one night and hits the 50 point to the objective levels if he hopes mark.
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The basketball warriors take to the floor on Saturday night at 8: 15 in another of their continuing series of exhibition games with american universities. They’ opened this series last Wednesday with a 81-78 loss to the St. Clasir county community college skippers of Port Huron, Michigan. The game featured an outstanding two-way performance by Bill Hamilton . who netted 14 points and led the team in rebounds and in hustle. The top warriors’ scorer was again Jaan Laaniste who has 24 points, 13 of them in the second half when the warriors made a run at St. Clair. The warriors were simply awful for the f,irst one-and-a-half quarters and fell behind by 3926. In the first half they missed
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seven layups. They rallied a bit and ended the half trailing by 8, 45-37. The game. became exciting in the second half as the warriors came to life. Behind Hamilton and Paul Bilewicz they narrowed the gap to one point several times but could never take the lead. Those who saw the game will agree that the warriors played only the second half-one half seems to be their limit latelyand were only effective when the rebounding was. Bilewicz is usually in too much foul danger to play the whole game-even at half or two-thirds he usually fouls out. Hamilton picked up a great deal of the slack but more consistent board play is still needed. The team that the warriors play on Saturday night is the Otterbein cardinals. The card-
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The University of Waterloo basketball athenas added another two games to their winnings to end-the term undefeated. ’ In the league play, the athenas defeated York 56-17 and then came up with their biggest win of the year by upsetting the strong Windsor team 45-37. In the York game, the athena defense gave up only four baskets and nine free throws for the en tire game. The athenas were on top for all of the game, leading 27-11 at the half. The final quarter saw the Waterloo girls outscore their host 14-1 for the win. Offensively, Charlotte Shaule led the athenas with 11 points. Under the basket, Patty Bland captured 12 rebounds to pace the defense. Until their meeting last week, both Windsor and Waterloo were undefeated and the win for the atheas gives them sole posession of first place in the western division of the league. The strong Windsor shooting and rebounding gave them control of the first two quarters as they netted seventy-five percent of their toal 37 points to lead 27-21 at the half. Charlotte Shaule kept the athenas in the game, scoring eight points before being injured in the second quarter and forced to sit out the remainder of the game. The athenas broke lose in the third quarter as they outran and
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inals achieved national small college rankings last year and should be better than the Port Huron- team was. Otterbein is led by Lorenzo Hunt who led the team in scoring last year and made all-Ohio allstar. These american schools- have a lot of class in athletics and if the warriors play well it should force them to put out at top levels to win. Only a few times against Port Huron, like late in the game, did they force the game, skippers to perform. This Saturday’s game at 8: 15 is the last home game before next term for the warriors and should deserve fan support. When the warriors are running, and they are due to be, they play an exciting brand of ball, spiced with hustle, presses, Keiswetter’s dribbling and Laaniste’s high scaring. \
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For Simons, it was the last game of the season with the athenas as she will be going on a work term in january. She ended her season well as she scored the final basket of the game as the buzzer sounded. The athenas now have a 7-O record, averaging 57 points a game. Individual scoring shows MaryAnn Gaskin and Patty Bland leading, both averaging better than nine points a game. Next scheduled action for the athenas is january 20 when they travel to Ryerson for a league match.
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The warrior wrestling team hosted the higly rated Michigan wrestling club on Saturday after beating the Kitchener YMCA the previous Wednesday. The meet on Saturday was won by Michigan but by the close score of 20 to 16. The results of the meet are as follows: (the warriors are listed first) Don Petrie was pinned by Larry Brown, Jim Hall pinned Phil Jackson, Wayne Gontier was pinned by Massiki Hatta, Pat Bolger drew with %ruce Fillar, Jack Walinga pinned Joe Gradzinski, Bruce Gribbon lost to Bob Harper, Doug Elliott was pinned by Jim McGahey, Wim Verhoven lost to Emmet Evans. Warriors won the heavyweight class bv default. There were also three exhibi-
John Barry of tion matches. U of W beat Phil Jackson and Pat -Bolger drew with Massiki Hatta. The Bolger-Hatta match was the highlight of the meet as Hatta is a former NCAA champ and highly ranked in the world. The warriors have shown this far that they are certainly going to have a good shot at the OQAA championship in march. Exhibition matches of top quality, like that of Saturday, can only add valuable exp_erience to the team members. It is a shame that wrestling has not attracted a spectator following? especially this year when, under coach Ed Dearmon, the warriors seem to be capable of one of their best seasons ever.
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Deck the mortgaged halls with holly, Falla-lalla-la, la-la-la-la ; Let’s have lots of yuletide folly, Falla-lalla-la, la-la-la-la ; Peace on earth is what we’re saying Fa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la ; But it’s not the game we’re playing, Falla-lalla-la, la-la-la-la. See the yule-log brightly burning, Falla-lalla-la, la-la-la-la ; See the loved ones all returning, Falla-lalla-la, la-la-la-la ; Everyone is not arriving, Fa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la ; Dad’s locked up for drunken driving, Falla-lalla-la, la-la-la-la. Hear the church bells gaily ringing, Falla-lalla-la, la-la-la-la ; Hear the carollers a’singing, Falla-lalla-la, la-la-la-la ; Meet them with a greeting hearty, Fa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la : Go away-you’llspoil the party; Falla-lalla-la, la-la-la-la. God rest you merry merchants, Let nothing you dismay; Providing all this merchandise Is sold by Christmas day; So keep the store clerks moving Where the silk and satin shine; And remember that this is Christmas time, Christmas time; And deodorants are two for 89. Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, They make you artificially ; Don’t know just what it is they do But dogs don’t seem to care for you. The tinsel twinkles shinily Upon your branches vinylly. The forest floor once was your home, But now you grow in styrofoam. Every year as we grow older, Falla-lalla-la, la-la-la-la ; h is getting colder,
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It always seems that Christmas, with its spirit of giving, offers us all a wonderful opportunity each year to reflect on what our society most sincerely and deeply believes-inmoney. Yet none of the Christmas carols that are heard on the radio or in the stores beginning in early november even attempts to capture the true spirit of Christmas as it is celebrated in the western world-that is, the commercial spirit. Newspapers publish and distribute the/usual traditional carol sheets, but their news copy is more concerned with the health of merchants’ cash registers-Cash Registers Ring Muff/ed Tune and Yule Sa/es Only Average So far read two recent heads on major stories in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. Realistic Christmas carols do spring up occaSionally-only to be lost because they did not get into print. * * * Twelve days of Christmas version follows the usual tune and format. Lyrics by the Brothers-in-Law. Chrktm.astime is here by go//y is set to a medicore sleighbell melody with the odd traditional tune inserted. Lyrics by Tom Lehrer. Deck the mortgaged ha//s follows the usual tune with an insert set to the tune of God rest ye merry gent/emen. Words by the Brothers-in-Law.
Christmastime is here by golly, Disapproval would be folly, Deck the halls with hunks of holly Fill the cup and don’t say when. Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens, Mix the punch, drag out the Dickens; Even though the prospect sickens, ’ Brother here we go again. On Christmas day you can’t get sore, Your fellow man you must adore ; There’s time to rob him all the more, On the other three hundred and sixty-four. : Relations sparing no expense will Send some useless old utensil ; Or a matching pen and pencil, Just the thing I need, how nice. It doesn’t matter how sincere it Is, now how hearfelt the spirit, Sentiment will not endear it, What’s important is the price. Hark, the Herald-Tribune sings, Advertising wonderous things. God rest ye merry merchants, May you make the yuletide pay. Angels we have heard on highTell us to go out and buy Oh, let the rocket-sleigh bells jingle, Hail our dear old friend Chris Kringle, Riding his reindeer across the sky, Don’t stand underneath when they fly by.
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Study hangups? Rap with Joan ‘Walsh, study skills specialist, in the campus center raproom, monday, tuesday and thursday afternoons next week from 1: 30to 4 :30. RAPROOM volunteers required for christmas vacation. If you are empathic, understanding, and have a desire to assist fellow students, contact Carol Jones in the campus center. WOULD the person or persons who inquired about buying 47 King street north please contact Nick at 578-3296.
We supply the food, The track and the Snowmobiles. Try it! You’ll love it!
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ONE Waterloo winter jacket size 42, one season old. 578-2597between 6-7pm. 1965AUSTIN 1800series car in very good condition, mechanical certificate, best offer . Phone 578-4938. CANDLES for Christmas! Eight different scents including essence of banana. Ask for Wende, upstairs Kitchener market, saturday 8am-lpm. Wishing for you a holiday filled with love, peace and more love. Wende. 1965VESTA Italian motor-bike, letter A-l approval. $150or best offer. After 6pm, 5781675. TWO-DOOR red Volvo, 1969,AM-FM radio, one-owner, only 10,000miles, good tires. A steal! Will alter serial and license number to suit new owner. Contact Midnight Auto Sup. ply, Five-Fingers Discount, Hamilton.
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2 MILES NORTH OF 401 ON HWY NO. 8 PHONE 745-3831
The’Heman’andSheiman’facts - about a ColumbiaDiamondring (start with our 10% student discount) its rarity-and the superb artistry and workmanship of its settings-it comes in many styles and prices. A Columbia diamond, guaranteed against loss and theft, retains its value everlastingly.
Many privileged women know the she-man facts about a Columbia diamond. Its rainbow fire that beit symspeaks love. The devotion bolizes. Its timeless beauty. That i+~ a token of a pledge troth . . .the unsurpassed jewel of-brides.
Before telling him the he-man facts, come in to Walters’ and find out about the free lifetime insurance policy accompanying every Walter’s diamond. Make it a very merry Christmas with a Columbia Diamond from Walters Credit Jewellers. The store with the 10% student discount and instant credit, (and beautiful diamonds!)
But don’t tell him all that. Give him some he-man facts about a ColFor example, its umbia diamond. substance is so hard that only another diamond can cut it. It’s rare because mother nature .hasn’t made many diamonds, and of those only a select few are good enough for a Columbia setting. And yet, despite
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ASSIGNMENTS, theses, etc. typed. Located on campus, reasonable rates. Call after 5pm. 576-2450. TYPING done efficiently and promptly. Phone Mrs. Wright, 745-1111during office hours, 745-1534after 6. TYPING done (theses, reports, correspondence, etc). Contact Ricarda Marx at 743-5839. TUTORS
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UNIVERSITY residences, winter term 1970double room accommodation in village 2 (habitat) will be available for the winter term commencing january 5. The residence fee, including meals, will be $490 for the term. Students wishing to apply for this accommodation may obtain “residence application forms” from the registrar’s office or from the village 1 office. For additional information, please call housing at 576-2208or university local 3704. FURNISHED single rooms available april 1970,complete kitchen facilities and lounge area. Call 743-6544. SINGLE room january term, walking distance to university, kitchen facilities, linen supplied. Phone evenings 744-7424. ATTENTION coop students. Bachelor apartment available at Waterloo towers for summer term. Furnished including cable TV, rent $140per month. For further information call 578-5645. DOUBLE room, own entrance, shower, kitchen, telephone, cable TV in new quiet home near university. Dale crescent, phone 578-4170. ONE-bedroom, summer term only, three students allowed. Kings towers. 578-2597 between 6-7pm. SINGLE room ‘for rent with light breakfast. $10 weekly, 82 Westmount road south, Waterloo. 744-3979. PODIUM suite available at Waterloo heights for summer term. Please call 5785318anytime. THREE male students for 70, winter term, complete kitchen, bath, parking, private entrance. Phone 745-7109. STUDENT accommodation available 23 december with kitchen facilities and sitting room, electric heating. Phone 744-1705. ROOM available for 2 senior students to share, Kitchen, linen supplied, parking, Erb street. Phone 743-8476. MALE student wanted to share double room 2nd term, parking available, no cookin’g. Apply 71 Alexandra avenue Waterloo or phone 744-7060after 5pm. FURNISHED apartment available, maySeptember (and after if desired) 2 minutes from either university. Waterloo towers, 137 University avenue, apartment 310.Call 7453186,ask for Brandon. FOR winter term in Toronto, Bloor and St. George area. Phone 9226819after 5:30pm. WARNING: 259Hazel has phone, cooking, ’ washing and girl restrictions. Rent at your own risk. SHARE Z-bedroom apartment, januaryapril, near St Mary’s hospital. Furnished, economical, utilities and parking free. Prefer 2 students on workterm. 743-7983,5-7pm. SINGLE rooms, male students, quiet, close to campus. separate entrance, kitchen and bathroom. 576-0449. WANTED
TWO bedroom apartment near university from january ‘to april. Phone Randal Leavitt, 745-2531. WANTED from january to may, two-bedroom furnished apartment near university. Write Eric McGlening, systems department, Laidlaw lumber company, 50 Oak street, Weston, Ontario.
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1968 Howard Petch made it official that he would be a reluctant draftee for the admin presidency; he informed admin president Gerry Hagey that he did not wish the selection committee to consider him a candidate; and student council decided it would not appoint students to the search committee unless minimum demands of democratization and openness were met by the board of governors. Fourteen students were arrested during the Peterborough Examiner strike and police brutality was charged, and the arts faculty council voted to open their meetings to students. After 13 years in the administration game, admin vicepresident for university development, Ted Batke, returned to teaching in engineering; and orientation was advertising for a chairman. Wishing Jesus a happy birthday, a Chevron staffer wrote the folio wing :
C is obviously for Capitalistswithout whom there would be no Christmas; H is clearly for Happinesswhich they get from fondling paycheques; R is for being Right-their wallets say they can’t be wrong; I is for Isolation-money makes
sages from the church colleges, the admin president and the deans of science, arts and engineering, was a letter from the president of the student council stating that council gave official approval to “0 Canada” as the national anthem of the students of uniwat. In an editorial entitled ‘sold, bank-in-cents and myth,” John MacDonald wrote the following after questioning why Christs birthday was celebrated and Socrates* (who died for the sake of truth) was not:
The answer is simple-it’s purely a matter of pressure groups. The church is a greater pressure group than the philosophers so the church gets its way. .But what has become of the religious festival of Christmas? it work, and broken minds resLots of people manage to get ult ; themselves conned in to going- to S is for Shame-we feel it church at Christmas- and so-the when we take the time to think number of attending hypocrites of hunger? increases, but while sitting in T is for Today-the time is NOW, the musty church, they are too before we die. busy worrying about the cookHappy birthday Jesus. ing turkey to bother about the (Are your savings in good . service. hands? )
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Are these hoards of sheep, dragging all and sundry of their family to the parish church on Christmas morning, indicative of a religious holiday? Bosh! Whether you care to face the fact or not, Christmas is little more than a pagan festival where the merchants make a killing and liquor makes people into killers. The spirit of Christmas comes out of your pocket and out of a bottle. Drink up and be merry, for december 25 is a holiday and you don’t have to face the stinkers you work with that day.
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In this year of the affluent student, there are still some who need the help and the boost to morale that a bursary can give. We therefore suggest once again that cash or cheques, made out to the bursary fund, university of Waterloo, be deposited with C.T. Boyes of the registrar’s office, or with any member of the library staff; and that a card
be tied to the Christmas tree in the lobby of the physics and mathematics building, with your name inscribed, and the message, “To the bursary fund.” You will be giving your support to what we consider a worthy university tradition. God rest you merry, ladies and gentlemen, and a happy Christmas to all.
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Uniwat’s plush new theater which cost more than a million dollars is, to put it mildly, something of a white elephant. What this campus doesn’t need is another 700-capacity theater, even if it is among the best equipped in Canada. Sure, it’s impressive to have a luxury theater on campus which combines the elements of proscenium and thrust stage and has all sorts of technical assets in the line of scenery and lighting equipment, but what purpose does it serve? The 500-capacity arts theater has already proved inadequate for a great many campus events as both creative-arts and student organizations know well. What we need is a large theater to serve as an alternative booking facility to the jock building whose abominable facilities are an insult
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to both audience and performers. Why this enormous chunk of the taxpayers money was squandered on another medium-sized theater is still something of a mystery. The english department’s initial request for a teaching theater to seat 40 to 100 people is somewhat suspect anyway, considering the number of students enrolled in theater arts. Uniwat doesn’t even have a theatei=arts department, and at the moment offers approximately four theater arts courses in which no more than 60 students are enrolled. This lucky minority now has a million-dollar teaching facility to play around with, and judging by the way, things are shaping up, they’re not too eager to share their toy. Arts dean Warren Ober explained this rather strange situation as only a uniwat dean could. “The
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foi uniwat theater was made thoroughly versatile so that it could serve the whole university and the outlying community in general”, he said. As more than one campus group has already discovered, this is a deception. The new theater is anyE thing but a campus facility. On the contrary it seems to be the exclusive preserve of the english department. As technical director (of the new theater) Earl Wiley put it, “Because the theater is first a teaching facility there is a very clear established priority of use.” Wiley also thinks that the selection of plays should be in keeping with the english department’s philosophy of theater, whatever that is. FASS were given the runaround when they tried to book the annual review into the new theater next term, and at least one other group was turned down in a similar fashion. According to one FASS member, the english department intends to have exclusive control over the theater and Wiley seems to have taken on the role of dictator. So who has gained by this cavalier spending of the Ontario taxpayer’s money ? The university community at large and the outlying community? According to english professor David Hedges even theater-arts people are not entirely happy. He said, “The new theater was not particularly constructed according to the ideas of theater-arts people, it’s much larger than we wanted. Ideally a theater for academic use should be smaller. ” And to think it took at least four years to plan this travesty.
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self the little tunes that his mother used to sing to him as he sat on her soft knee in the drawing room of the stately old mansion where his father used to negotiate billion dollar trading pacts with imperialist, fascist, war-mongering Yankee capitalist pigs and where his beloved mother used to make out regularly with the charwoman who came in four times a ‘week to clean up the mess that his well-known uncle, Throckmorton, would make when he puked after sustaining all night binges with his drunken sot friends from the army who used the vast lands of his father’s estate on which to practice war games and generally make a nuisance of themselves as they raped the milkmaid and often did naughty things to the young, blonde-haired hay-gatherer’s son ‘behind the gardener’s tool shed. ‘No wonder,’ the monster mused as he tripped over the putrid carcasses of several of his victims, ‘that I turned out to be the disturbed individual that I am.’ Whereupon he continued into the oblivious shadows of the horrid cavern and became one with the festering memories of the great unknown.
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The hero of Beautiful losers, the “I” of the narration, is a Canadian historian who in 1966 is studying the life of Catherine Tekakwitha, an iroquois indian maiden who actually lived in the seventeenth century. In addition to the narrator there are three other main characters, all of whom are dead in 1966. Catherine Tekakwitha appears as a character in her own right who died in 1680. Edith, the narrator’s wife, committed suicide about 1960, and F., the narrator’s mentor, lover and friend died insane shortly after Edith’s death, “in a padded cell, his brain rotted from too much dirty sex.” Cohen seems to begin with Stephen Dedalus’ statement in Ulysses that “History is a nightmare from which I’m trying to awake” and investigates “history” in its widest applications. In particular he probes the effect of one’s individual history on one’s style. By style, he means the totality of’ one’s memory, personality and actions. When exhorting the narrator, F., as teacher, says, “My friend, go beyond my style.” He makes the point that our styles are defined in terms of past experiences which, of course, is unavoidable. But one of the main themes of Beautiful losers is that one’s personal history oppresses an individual, by hindering his perceptions in the present and his F. pleads with him to overdevelopment in the future. come his history and live in the present no matter how unpleasant it may be. “We almost began a perfect conversation, F. said He turned the as he turned on the six o’clock news. radio very loud and began to shout wildly against the voice of the commentator, who was reciting a list of disasters. Sail on, sail on 0 Ship of State, au to accidents, births, Berlin, cures for cancer! Listen, my friend, listen to the present, the right now, its all around us, painted like a target, red, white, and blue. Sail into the target like a dart, a fluke bullls eye in a dirty pub. Empty your memory and listen to the fire around you. Don’t forget your memory, let it exist somewhere precious in all the colors that it needs but somewhere else, hoist your memory on the Ship of State like a pirate’s sail, and aim yourself at the tinkly present. #’
Cohen, like Thomas Carlyle, believes that names and categories fragment the world we perceive rather than providing tools with which we can deal with the universe. The novel can be interpreted as an investigation into how men perceive chaos and how they deal with it. Because he is talking about chaos, it is fitting that Cohen appropriate a diffusive black-comic style which suggests disintegration and discontinuity. The narrator, who is verging on the edge of insanity, uses history as a means of structuring order into the world which experience has shown him to be chaotic. He has submerged himself in a study of the indian maiden in order to give meaning to his life and console himself for the loss of Edith and F. The opening lines of the novel give -an indication tha-t the narrator is aware that history alone cannot give meaning to the present. “Catherine ( 1656- 7 680)?
Tekakwith, who Is that enought?
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He compiles lists whenever he can in order to convince himself that the plague-as he calls chaos-can be overcome. (He asks, “Why do baseball statistics smell like the Plague?“) As a device for preserving his wife’s memory, for instance, he inanely documents a list of everything he ever put in her navel in the hope that the list can, in effect, recreate her. But after completing the list he realizes that he is only constructing categories as defenses against the chaos which surrounds him. ##Why did that list depress have made the list. I’ve done
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I tried to use it. I tried to use your belly belly, Edith. against the Plague. I tried to be a man in a padded locker room telling a beautiful smutty story to eternity. I tried to be an emcee in tuxedo arousing a lodge of honeymooners, my bed full of golf widows. I forgot that I was desperate. I forgot that I began this research in desperation. ‘My briefcase fooled me. My tidy notes led me astray. I thought I was doing a job I started . ...the evidence tricked me into mastery. making plans like a graduating class. I forgot who I was..../ tried to sail past the Plague in a gondola, young tenor about to be discovered by talent-scout tourist . ...I forgot that I only have one more chance. I thought Edith would rest in a catalogue.... Yes, yes / abandon even the system of renunciation. In the tiled dawn courtroom a folded man tries a thousand
Monroe. For him, magic is any process or symbol system which enables man to reinterpret reality or ~raise it to a level above the mundane. Games are a device for reordering reality in novel ways. F. tells the narrator that “Games are nature’s most beautiful creation. All animals play games, and the truly Messianic vision of the brotherhood of creatures must be based on the idea of the game. ‘-
(F., by the way, buys a factory and turns it into a playground. ) Mythologies also concern the reinterpreting of reality and the establishment of new values. Cohen draws. on various indian legends deseribing the genesis of the universe and the creation of the indian tribes, as well as the Greek Promethean myth which is rele-
In The cam&an forum april 7928 edition, A.J. M. Smith wrote the fo//owing: ‘The Canadian writer must put up a fight for freedom in the choice and treatment of his subject. Nowhere is puritanism more disastrously prohibitive than among US, and it seems, indeed, that desperate methods and dangerous remedies must be resorted to, that our condition will not improve until we have been thoroughly shocked by the appearance in our midst of a work of art that is at once successful and oscene. Smith, undoubtedly was over-optimistic. In March 7966, Beautiful losers was published by McClelland and Stewart; but judging by the reception it received, purifanism is still with us. Most of the critics lambasted it as the dirtiest book ever written in Canada and few if any had the perception to see it as a major work of art. oaths.
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In addition to the fact that the narrator is an historian, Cohen employs a multitude of symbols to suggest man’s propensity to organize chaos in such a way as to convince himself that order is a natural occurrence rather than man’s imposition on the world. He refers to museums, the national library and the archives with the same attitude he directs at newspapers in Parasites of heaven. Here is a headline July 14 in the city of Montreal Intervention decisive de Pearson a la conference du Common wealth That was yesterday
That is, collecting artifacts and presenting summaries of the past does not preserve it. Despite F.‘s exhortations to “connect nothing” (that is, not to structure order into the world), the narrator in the early part of the novel finds this predilection a necessary and beautiful process. ...my mind seems to go out on a path the width of a thread and of endless length, a thread that is the same color as the night. Out, out along the narrow driven by curiosity, _luminhighway sails my mind, ous with acceptance, far and out, like a feathered hook whipped,. deep into the light above the stream by a magnificent cast. Somewhere, out of my reach, my control, the hook unbends into a spear, the spear shears itself into a needle, and the needle sews the world together....Connect no thing: F. shouted. Place things side by side on your arborite table, if YOU must, but connect nothing!
The role F. plays as the historian’s mentor is symbolized in the iroquois legend of Oscotarach, the “head-piercer” whose function it was to remove the brains from the skulls-of dead iroquois “as a necessary preparation for immortality”. F. is identified with Oscotarach because he forces the narrator to forego his reliance on history, categories, catalogues and other organizing processes and confront the reality of chaos. “I wish that you would comes out of the whirlwind. time have remembered. *’
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Elsewhere, F. is likened to Moses and John the baptist where the narrator is paralleled with the jews in search of the promised land or, in the other case, Christ. In both parallels, F. is attempting to push the narrator into a new perception of the world beyond the “plague” which F. is himself incapable of achieving. As he says, “My dear friend, go beyond my style”. And elsewhere, contrasting, himself with the narrator’s potential to go beyond his style. “We who cannot dwell in the Clear Light, we must deal with symbols”. (F., who died of “Too much dirty sex”, is here explaining why his last act was to dynamite Queen Victoria’s statue! > The actions of all the characters in the book are directed toward the sacrifice of the self to a greater cause. F. champions revolution in Quebec and the enlightenment of his friend; Edith commits suidide because she knows her husband cannot attain enlightenment without the experience of loss; Catherine Tekakwitha is baptised by the jesuits and becomes a fanatically dedicated convert to Catholicism; and the narrator undergoes deprivations and anguish in order to arrive at a new orientation to the world which is manifested in a vision of God. In order to explain this vision, I must backtrack and piqk up another maintheme, “magic”. By magic, Cohen means games, movies, mythologies, legends, and mythical figures-including everybody from Icarus to captain Marvel and Marilyn
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vant because Prometheus defied omnipotent Zeus in order to bring fire to man and create a new order in the universe. Contemporary mythical figures like Bridgit Bardot and James Dean are also mentioned because they represent new values. The legend of James Dean represents (and in part helped create) the worldview of some individuals who live between the lost generation and the beat generation, while Bardot has been elevated to the stature of a legend as a representation of the “new woman”. In Parasites of heaven, Cohen asks “can any girl be discovered after Bardot? ” The answer he implies in Beautiful losers is “yes, when another myth is needed to represent a new another myth is needed to represent a new conception of the female”. Cohen draws on well over a dozen different mythologies in order to make his point that myths are an expression of man’s eternal desire to expand his vision beyond the prevailing definitions of reality, and, in this sense, myths are magic. Movies are also a part of magic in that they transfigure reality and present an interpretation of the world through the selection of real objects. At the same time, cinema does not have the disadvantage of creating arbitrary categories in the same degree that history does. F. writes to his friend: Of all the laws which bind us to the past, the names of things are the most severe....Names preserve the dignity of Appearance....Science begins in coarse naming; a willingness to disregard the particular shape and destiny of each red life, and call them all Rose.
Movies also annihilate the self by encouraging vicarious living as well as enlarging our experience beyond the bounds of our time and space. “You know what pain looks like, that kind of pain, you’ve been inside newsreel Belsen. ” The vision‘ of God which the narrator reaches is the realization that God is manifested in magic. That is, God is not a static entity, but rather a dynamic process. God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic never died. God never sickened. Many poor men lied. Many sick men lied. Magic never weakened. Magic never hid.. Magic always ruled. God is afoot. God never died. God was ruler though his funeral lengthened. Though his mourners thickened Magic ’ never fled. Though his shrouds were hois ted the naked God did ’ live. Though his words were twisted the naked Magic thrived.. .. Magic never faltered. Magic always led. Many stones were rolled but God would not lie down . ... Though they locked their coffers God was always served.. Magic is afoot. God rules.. Though laws were carved in marble they could not shelter men. Though alters built in Parliaments they could not order men. Police arrested Magic and Magic went with them for Magic loves the hungry....Magic is afoot. It cannot come to harm. It rests in an empty palm. It spawns in an empty mind. But Magic is no instrument. Magic is the end.... The title of Beautiful losers alludes to Cohen’s
notion of the possibilities of human life which expressed in the fates of the main characters.’ believes that it is the realization of the extremes human potentiality arising out of suffering and that constitutes greatness. Thus the characters both “losers” and “beautiful’‘-beautiful in sense of fulfilled and elevated, though not happy any mundane way. continued
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Catherine Tekakwitha imposes mortifications on herself which result in her death, yet three centuries later she is beatified by the catholic church. Edith dies a grisly death which is one factor which contributes to the narrator’s vision. F. dies insane, b;t is proclaimed first president of the republic of Quebec and his teachings permit his friend to achieve a vision of God which he is not extreme enough to achieve by himself. AS he says to the narrator: I envied you the certainty that you would amount to nothing. I coveted the magic of torn do thes. I was jealous of the terrors I constructed for you but could not tremble before myself. I was never drunk enough, never poor enough, never rich enough.
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By any standard definition of success the narrator does indeed “amount to nothing”, and in that sense he is a loser; but he is also beautiful in that he, like Catherine Tekakwitha, becomes a saint, though not a saint in the specifically religious sense. As he says:
What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contract with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself for there is something arrogant and war-like in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. He rides the
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drifts like an escaped ski. His coirse is a’ caress -bf His track is a drawing of the snow in a the hill. moment of its particular arrangement with winds and rock. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but is at home in the world. He can love the shapes of the human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to of love. It makes me think that the numbers in the bag actually correspond to the numbers on the raffles we have bought so dearly, and so the prize is not an illusion.
In the end, the vision of God arising from his suffering enables the narrator to ascend to the structure of a Christ-figure mediating between man and the God he has experienced. Poor men, poor men, such as we, they’ve gone and fled. I will plead from electrical tower. I will plead from turret of plane. He will uncover His face. He will not ‘leave me alone. I will spread His name in Parliament. I will welcome His silence in pain. I have come through the fire of family and love. I smoke with my darling, I sleep with my friend. We talk of the poor men, broken and fled. Alone with my radio I lift up my hands. Welcome to you who read my today. Welcqme to you who put my heart down. Welcome to you, darling and friend, who miss me forever in your trip to the end.
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Wow! What d o you say when confronted with reviewing a play like Marat/SadeI
Marat/Sade is a play within a play. The inmates of the Charenton asylum are directed in a violent and often unpleasant play by the Marquis de Sade, also one of the inmates. Representatives of the town aristocracy seat themselves at the side of the stage to witness this insane production. We, as the audience, are also the audience of the play-within-the-play. We are the aristocracy, aloof and laughing with sadistic joy at these half-humans. We delight in all the gory details. Sade’s play concerns, in part, a dialog between himself and Jean Paul Marat. Marat’s revolutionary (socialist? - marxist?) demands are attacked by Sade’s peculiar egoism, while the inmates scream and writhe, shout and fight, support and denounce the debators. Perhaps the inmates represent us. A frightening thought.
Well, first, I must make it clear that my review of the play is not one based on the comparison of a university production as opposed to what I would expect of a Broadway production. This play was put on by students, who are still learning their craft and are carrying a full course load of subjects along with all the rehearsals. The play was the best I have seen at the university so far. Not only did the audience enjoy themselves, but you could tell that the actors did too. They had obviously worked hard in their demanding roles and they should be congratulated if only for the energy and 5 effort expended.
It is difficult in a cast of 30 to mention any one particular actor without doing an injustice to the others, but a few certainly deserve praise. 1 John Turner, as Marat, was marvellous. He was the most convincing character in the play, and his voice carried clearly the full meaning of Marat’s speeches, though I must admit his skimpy costume seemed to cause a great deal of nervousness to both him and the audience. Frappier. as DeSade maintained a controlled and calm performance though his diction could be improved. Joan Gaskell was good but inconsistent, and Lee Campbell was very funny.
The play itself consists of so All of the singers were excellmany plots and themes and timeent, especially Brenda Nicolichuk jumps that to attempt even a short -who has really come far in her synopsis would be ridiculous. acting. Alec Cooper was a joy, and There is always so much going on Paul Robert gave a marvellously at the same time and the action is aristocratic characterization. so swift that the production can Sandy Froese, though she had no lines, made her presence as the nun felt, and the calm concentration she exuded spoke for her.
At times the stage is in complete bedlam, with no discernible organization. What’s going on? The aristocrat steps forward and demands that Sade must keep his players under control. After all, didn’t we come here to be entertained? The inmates act out scenes of murder, sex, violence and hatred. Meanwhile a nun stands at the side, mostly silent, and pokerfaced, but sometimes directing the inmates in some insane game, while Sade and Marat continue their invectives against society. But the play ends without havl ing resolved the discussion. Revolution or hibernation? Sade’s last lines (which, incidentally, I don’t find in my copy of the play) leave it up to us. Well, my decision was made long ago: If you can’t join ‘em, hibernate.
The patients were wonderfully crazy and slithery, though they sometimes tended to react the same way at the Tame time. All of them wdtked together, reacting and feeding on each others psychoses, though there was one little blonde who in trying to upstage the others struck a discordant note in an otherwise well-balanced (metaphorically speaking) group.
I was pleased (but not overly impressed) with the acting, especially with Paul-Emile Frappier, who portrayed the Marquis de Sade quite excellently, sometimes in silence with a dark, massive frown. and other times shouting with a shuddering, masochistic intensity. And a round of enthusiastic applause for the several musicians who unfalteringly provided the music and musical background for the entire production.
A great deal of credit and praise should go to Mita Scott Hedges who directed the play admirably through all the setbacks, including a Theater not finished on schedule. There is rumor of a cooperative effort next term between the drama department and the creative arts board. If it should come about, and the production is as good as this one, the university. will have some plays to be proud nF “1. Paul Frappier (above) turned in outstanding
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I have made a few interesting measurements on the photograph on the front page pf tuesday’s paper. Under the assumption that the figures quoted are correct, I calculated t.he following: Distance between inside of posts on the photograph is 36mm. Distance between the ears of the chap on the left is 3.5mm. Thus if 36mm. are equivalent to three feet (because lmm equals 1 inch) then that poor chap has a head only 3.5 inches wide, poor fellow. But if his head is of the order of six inches wide, then the distance between the posts is of the order of 6 feet. Thus the threefoot wide passage in the six-foot wide path is in fact a six foot wide passage in a six-foot wide path. Or am I in error? JOHN SCOTT grad chemistry An ambitious Chevron staff member, equipped with a Lufkin, ten-foot steel tape, white-clad, investigated the scene of the alleged error. The passageway in the section of the fence nearest the university measured sixty and fiveeights inches, while the original asphalt (rolled, hot-mix pavement) path measured 117 inches approximately, depending on the and sufficient definnecessary ition of the edge. The net result is the cutting by one-half of the traversable and unencumbered width of the path. The photo information in question alleged. that a six-foot path had been reduced to a proper channel of three-foot dimen-
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attempting to pull itself up by its bootstraps, where a burgeoning population and the divisiveness of a myriad subcultures pose enormous obstacles in the way of attaining a reasonable living standard for everyone ; but to suggest that drugs are at the root of India’s problems or that the ‘society is sick’ is, to say the least, naive over-simplification. Of course, one does not- expect Mr. Kingston to be well informed about India, but one does hope that he would reflect a little more before jumping into sweeping generalities. R. KESHAVAN, grad mech eng We
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I would like to complain about a remark made of me in the november 28 issue of the Chevron. Let me make it clear that I am not now, nor have I pver been associated with any group which calls itself the “narcs”. While our information may be similar, our methods of compiling and the uses to which this information is put are quite dissimilar. I would also like to thank Mr. Bell, who wrote the letter, for helping to spread my message, and I hope that the “radical, commie, perverts” to whom he refers will see the light and mend their ways, else all they will find, neath their tree this christmas will be the floor. Merry Christmas to all. Love, SANTA CLAUS ( integrated-studies Christmas-oops, a mechanical
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Glory be! Christmas-oops, I mean Xmas-has once again festered itself upon us in the form of a mechanical monster eyeing the campus evilly from the site of the future library annex, pushing out the night with its sterile blotches of color. -the lettitor, indulging in unBut what is the cause of all accustomed verbosity this imminent merrymaking? Surely not a religious ceremony, Officer lucks facts on for a Windsor church group was India and marijuana prevented from entering a relI would like to comment on igious float in a Santa Claus certain remarks made by conparade there because “it was not stable J. Kingston of the Kitchenin the right spirit.” j er morality squad during the Hence we can discount the birth recent discussion on legalizing of Christ as an important factor. mari juana, at the university of Why is it then that Claus capWaterloo. italism goose-steps into town on To quote from the Kitchenernovember 23? Why do people Waterloo Record of 5 december shell out exorbitant sums for 1969-“Look at India, he (conjunk which they trade off with where stable Kingston > said, acquaintances, not to mention marijuana is smoked commonly. the ritual of sending cards to He called it a “sick society” full half the addresses in the teleof superstition and disease while phone directory? drugged people sit around conThe message coming across templating.” seems to be: it’s not the gift. Now, I wonder what sort of that counts, but how much you statistics Mr. Kingston has to spend. support his statement that ‘marA religious ceremony is fine, ijuana is smoked commonly’ in but perhaps some people resent India. While news items about the being prodded ‘flower children ’ Mattel monstrositiesinto orpurchasing so called ten-foot flocking to India may give the dolls that do everything but impression that the use of marigrunt and make obscene gesjuana is widespread in India, tures. I suggest that the average inIn short, Christmas has dedian has ery little interest in generated into a come-and-buy the pleasures of pot. put-on, a time when discarded There is no great concern junk, plus garbage specially about the use of drugs in India created for the occasion, can be not because they are a socially unloaded on the public without acccepted way of life, but be- their knowing what has hapcause the problem of drug ad- pened until the february bills diction does not exisf in any roll in. significant degree. And to me this is symbolizAdmittedly, India is a country ed best by those phosphorescent sion. While3 the- numbers are in error, symmetry of proportions the should be enough to earn a uniwa t engineering. degree.. .. or at with physical-plant least a job and planning.
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In reference to your picture of the starving biafran child; no it’s not a subtle hint to Howie Petch. It is a subtle hint to the Chevron. Why don’t you stop wasting money on printing the Chevron. The money you spend on your useless rag could allow him to live and grow. Please close down. JOHN MEDLEY eng 1A
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You’ve blamed Petch for everything, but your implication that he is any more responsible than any other person for the starvation in Biafra is really a little too much. I wonder, do Chevron staff ever drink coffee? Or are you a cross between the computer and Godf DENIS LAWRENCE math 2
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The Chevron’s criticism of the administration in general and president Petch in particular are usually well aimed. The 28 november Chevron has examples of very good and very poor aim. The editorial headed “Waffle for starving kids” criticized Petch justly for offering too little, too late in the use of university resources for the pursuit of peace. In the same issue, a picture of a Biafra relief donation can had a caption criticizing Petch for giving -free coffee to people who come to him during his Petch peeves sessions. I realize that photo captions cannot receive the same amount of thought and consideration as an editorial. I also realize that Petch peeves sessions are a poor token offering of university resources toward solving any of the world’s or Waterloo’s problems. But still, it was criticism poorly aimed and it detracts from the more effectively directed analysis. alysis. JIM McCARRY arts 1 Russian festival from Ukrainian
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On thursday, november 27 in the arts theater, the russian club of the U of W held a “russian festival”. For those who were present, it was, on the whole, an enjoyable, but amateur presentation, as a product of the offerings from the universities of Carleton, McMaster, York and U of W There are several things, however, that should be brought to the attention of those present and not present. The russian culture is different and distinct from the Ukrainian culture. So why did the group from Carleton present a Ukrainian dance in their program, using Ukrainian costume and music? Why did the group from McMaster wear ukrainian national dress in the presentation of russian songs? Is the great russian culture so lacking of its own national costumes, dress, music and
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dances, that it has to take from the Ukrainian culture and masquerade it, as its own? Both cultures are separate, and these people should know this better than anyone else. In the future, if the russian club at U of W plans to label event, anything as a russian keep it russian, or admit that it cannot do without non-russian help. There is no justification for such a blunder. I would like to advise the russian club, that if it plans to put on a russian evening again, to do it right, or don’t do it at all. V.R. MLYNARSKY grad
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Congratulations on your answer to the letter of messrs. Morton and Mitford. (feedback, dec 4.) I agree that there are many people who are only willing to criticize a situation and unwilling to do anything about it. In your answer you refer to a contradiction in their argument. May I point out several in yours? They are “welcome to take over from the present Chevron staff”. Do you really mean this? In the very next sentence is the YQU say, “the Chevron product of a volunteer staff...“. This staff is presumably producing the newspaper because they enjoy journalism, and they probably wouldn’t like the idea of having someone else take over their jobs. Why don’t you either be honest with your readers, or all resign en masse. Either someone else would take over or the campus would be without a free newspaper. Both alternatives would make martyrs of you, which appears to be what you want, judging from the sorry-for-yourself tone of the answer. Returning to the question of destructive criticism, with no constructive suggestion - a parallel. The good Knowlton Collister, in his comments on Tom McLeod, draws conclusions about the said candidate without suggesting what might have been better. I would certainly defend the right of any newspaper toI print its own opinions in its own way, but it seems hypocritical to criticize others when they try to do the same. Finally I would point out that YOU surely owe Messrs. Mortan and Mitford a little more respect than you accorded them since, as I have mentioned often before, you -are using some of their money, without their permission, to produce your newspaper. To my mind, only if YOU were totally financially independent could you possibly justify statements such as those I have referred to. PHILIP ENGLISH. grad physics
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However, you have instilled this ester of most universities, includSmatter Peet, Nix babe,guy feeling into our minds which caning university of Waterloo, with peepholes, santer C/UWS? not be erased even if the marks are one exception: more time is devotraised. Poem my lai ed to practical laboratory work. Flyker The equality between the first By giving us these tests you are By the squeejo semester of a university and creating a negative reinforcement Zan and annie flak. Northern is an advantage for you which was used 100 years ago. You Confucius over fuzztick zapper since there is a good possibility might as well belt the students. Ribbit! Ribbit! Ribbit! that you could transfer directly Learning should be enjoyable and Rats! into the second semester at Northnot fruitless. For squeejos ern if you plan on leaving the uniEven the most brilliant student Annie commie finks versity of Waterloo. would not be able to think logical(Hoo slaughterbatch) Upon graduation from Northern, ly under the threat of failure. It is And but never drownout the student can become a certified known that people under extreme Grey cup noozeengineering technologist. Since pressure are not able to solve the Ornery headliners. engineers are moving to more abmost trivial questions. Peet Troodoh larf ‘n smile. stract and mathematical considMy Lai killin. Remember, this is a first year erations, the role of the technoloAnd hoo tears about course not a fourth year course. gist has become more and more DEAN MURRAY Lily tong kids? important. He has to bridge the Anywhoo? Anywhoo? math 1 gap between the theoretical enginNot squeejo. eer and the practical technician. S’matter, knighted nations? The technologist makes use of Smatter, Peet? his previous education, both theorIf you were him, S’matter, Nix babe? etical and practical, in the soluSmatter, guy peepholes? would you? tion of practical problems presentLily kids ! ed to him by the engineer. Through When my friends try to justify Lily Kids! his own knowledge, ability, and to me that it is perfectly okay to 00 santer claws? ingenuity the technologist controls ,make a 150 percent profit on land Lily kids.. . . . . .. his own opportunities for advancethat somebody owns, all that I can ment. His future is not limited in do is to really feel sorry for them. GUY KEMP terms of either salary or responYou see they haven’t seen real sibility. poverty. They haven’t seen a child Kirkland Lake has a competent die because there was nothing to staff. Since the college is small the eat. They haven’t seen the shadow Ad for community college staff-student relationship is unfrom former uniwat student of death creep through a village of ique. The detachment between the sore covered bodies shallowing student and an instructor at a uniIn december of 1967, I became without discrimination. versity is completely absent at one of the many Christmas graduMaybe I’ve been lucky in some ates at the university of Waterloo. Northern. bizarre way, because I have. And Also the equipment at the stuHaving left the so called “good when I think of those thin, infected life”, that of being a student, I de- dent’s disposal is new and very people and they ‘tell me that the modern. cided to go to work. However, afman down the street made 150 ter ten long months of awakening percent profit on his land, I laugh Finally, if there are any stuat 5 in the morning and going to dents interested and cry at the same time. in coming here, work for 8 hours down in a mine I they should contact Mr. A. Miko, If that man were you, would you returned to school in january of registrar and student placement give your profit to alleviate the 1969. No, I didn’t go back to univerofficer, 140 Government road east, suffering of someone you don’t sity, instead I enrolled at a com- Kirkland Lake, Ontario, for any know or probably would never muni ty college. further particulars concerning apmeet? plication, registration and student It has been my own experience MARK ALLAN that prompted me to write this let- awards. ’ geog2 ter. I would like to thank you, the This letter, in particular, is in- editor, for allowing me to place this letter in your paper and to you tended for those students, presentHeulth service won’t ’ the students for reading it. ly at the University of Waterloo, treut patient with VD who are seriously considering R. L. COUGHLIN, leaving the university. I know how electronics 2 I have a friend who contacted you feel, you’re fed up with school NCAAT. gonorrhea about three and oneand feel it is the end of the line... half months ago. But it’s not! There are many other He has been to health services avenues available to you and one of two or three times, where it took these is through the community Tests too difficult colleges of Ontario. him 15 to 20 minutes to talk the for first year math doctor into giving him a test. The These community colleges offer doctor gave him penicillin pills TO the grandchild of Newton : many excellent courses which you Mr. Robert Babb go to h.. . ! once, then the second time asked should consider. One of these collmy friend what he had been taking. This is from the mass of enslaveges is situated in Kirkland Lake My friend virtually prescribed his Ontario. Kirkland Lake has one of ed frustrated thursday night math own medicine. 132 students. three campuses of the northern college of applied arts and technolHe has been begging for a peniYou stated that some profs are ogy. It is the most modern of the bitching about the tests, but apparcillin shot. The doctor at health three campuses and consists of a ently they are not any easier. services says it’s against their six and one-half million dollar policy. Ninety-nine point nine ’ percent complex situated on the top of a of us are not Newton children so He’s been at K-W hospital-they hill overlooking a lake. why on earth are the tests so diffisaid they don’t handle that (VD). The Kirland Lake campus offers cult? He’s working, so finds it difficult three-year courses in electronics, Dr. Roden, our prof, stated at to get to the VD clinic in town electrical mechanical, civil, build(whose hours are rather odd). the beginning that if you can do the ing services and chemical tech- problem sets you will not have any My friend knows what he has, nology. It also offers a three-year problem with the tests. and will devise some way to get rid course in business administration of it (he’s probably immune to penSitting in on Dr. Manning’s class Andy programs in mechanical draftcillin by now). But he is concerned at the commencement of the year ing and secretarial science. that some gullible, not-so-well inwe heard him state that the course frosh will believe the The basic difference in the techwas easy and everyone should ob- formed health services doctor that everynology curriculum compared to tain seventy-five percent. thing’s okay-and become sterile. that of a university, is the student This is a bunch of hogwash. The Or, if it’s syphilis, maybe in 20 gets a strong theoretical and pracdouble-star questions were to be years.. . tical foundation in his particular the most difficult but somehow course concentrated into three He wonders about all the propawe are getting questions that years. All of the technology coursganda to not be ashamed, get it should be nine-star questions. es are six semesters in length and treated. The doctors, not the pathey begin in September of each Pedagogically, this creates anxtients, seem to be the ones with year. iety and frustration, making us the problem. JILL The first semester of these cour- dislike the subject instead of inin it with enthusiasm. arts 3 ses is equivalent to the first sem- dulging
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ROM POLAND AND world war II comes the story of a baby born in a grave. Jews who had escaped from the gas chambers fobnd the only place their tormentors did not look for them was in the graveyard. They lived in graves, and one day a young woman gave birth to a boy in a grave. When h.e saw that it was a boy the old gravedigger who assisted at the birth prayed, “Great God, hast thou finally sent the messiah to us? For who else than the messiah himself can be born in a grave?” It could be argued that all of us are born in a grave. I believe it was Matthew Arnold who referred to$he world as a vast charnel-house, a place of death and of the signs of death. That the world is a place of death is obvious on every side. for fear of Death constantly makes the ness, with occupation the questions that life asks of us. news. People die in cars, children in swimming pools; people die by Busyness acts like an anaesthetic’;it is the cocktail, the highball, the hundreds of thousands for lack more and more of food and men deliberately and which becomes the more and more we in despair kill each other on the necessary field of battle, all of this not to depend upon it. It blunts, deadens in us. It speak of what happens in the nat- the spiritual sensitivities ural order all around us. There is kills life. in this world the smell of death. And the tyranny of fear! What This is an inescapable fact which will happen to me? Will my chilhaunts man, the fact that all living ren be faithful copies of me? Will things die. It is the one certain they do well-which is to say, will melancholy fact of his existence. they fulfil my life and meet my But the world is also a place of standards? Will I be acceptable to life. Life becomes before death ; people? Will I be able to keep up in fact it come‘s out of death. In the and perform well, in the competibeginning of our planet life came tion in my professional world? into being via the combination of Fear immobilizes, it paralyzes the lifeless matter and the.long evolumuscles and the nerves of the spirtion of life began. Life is as ob- it. It makes action impossible and vious a fact as death. The world when motion ceases, death has taken over. teems with it. Moreover life constantly emerges from death. The tyranny of fear leads to the Plants grow only because other tyranny of conformity. In thought, plants and animals have died. word, and action, we take our Parents, human and animal age bearings by what others think and and in a measure die as they give say and do. We become robots acT life and nourishment to children. tivitated by others. We exercise Always there is new life, a profuno self-determination, no free sion, a prodigality of life to cheat choice for fear of being thought death. different, odd, or radical. We know are hated, Matthew, chapters I and II are that non-conformists because they are a symbol of this double fact of ex- and crucified istence; life and death, death and against death. But in the tyranny of conformity independent free life life. The birth of a child! so fragile, so n’ear to destruction, but so ends and death takes over. And finally, the tyranny of preremarkable in its potential. Who knows what is hidden in a child judice. This also means the abdicjust born? The glory of parenthood ation of independent thought and judgement. It is a submission to is the mystery of producing life, but it is also quite as much the living by slogans by cheap generalizations about the world and its exquisite expectation, the anticipation about how this life will un- problems and about people. We fold, and expectation interlaced classify people into types by which we can judge and control them, so with a sheerest joy and the sharpest pain, with the warmest satisthat they become not persons but niggers, wops, scabs, communfaction and the coldest anxiety. ists, capitalists, reactionaries, Life and death lies in the balance. Any child when it is born is near radicals, etc. We make things of death. As soon as he is born he is them and that is killing them, it is on his own. Before that he was part hating them because, we fear of the mother. Life is in the bal- them. To live under these tyrants is to ance: will he breathe? Will all the systems function now that he is an opt for death for outselves and individual? Are lungs, heart, brain others. The inner life of the soul in “go” condition? When Jesus dries up because the sources of was born most infants that were nourishment are cut off. Paul born did not survive that initial writes that “death is at work in hour of crisis, but he did survive; us.” Always, relentlessly it is conlife triumphed, and then immedistantly enticing us with the rosy ately there -was another threat. fruit which is ashes within, with Death loomed large not from the the bloom of health which is rottenuncertainty of natural function but ess and decay underneath. But from a man who had surrendered Paul also says “life is at work in to death and who had become a us. slave to death. It came from HerCan we really abandon ourselves od’s deliberate premeditated in- into weeping tears of joy, surrendering to softness and tendernesstention to destroy the new, destinyladen life. It was the death that in short surrendering to life so comes from within man; from the that death will not have dominion charnel-house within, a dark, over us? howling chaotic place within*man, The answer to man’s question whether life or death prevails in inhabited by the demons of death and decay and chaos and disorder. the end lies largely with you and Herod is a man in. the seat of me.
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power, but he is so weak that he feels the_ foundations of power quake and move because of the presence of life in the child Jesus. So weak is the monarch that he fears extinction at the hands of a child. It is a mark of death, that in his death throes he flails about to take with him into nothingness the life which he fears. He knows only one way of dealing with the threat; to kill and to destroy. And so for a second time the life barely escapes death, but in’the escaping it leaves behind worlds of grief and suffering, for one mother’s lament for her child fills the universe. The cost of life is great; it is preserved and nurtured through suffering and pain and death . But the life survives. That is what Christmas is all about. Even the old pagan celebrations which preceded the Christian Christmas at the same time of year for thousands of years had made precisely the same point; the affirmation of life over death because the sun-began its return journey once more and life was promised again. The child, the weak vulnerable thing, always so close to destruction! The line between life and death only a minute of time! Only one stroke can destroy all that delicate function, all the brilliance and beauty and harmony and vibrance z of life! But the stroke does not foll- ‘ow; the minute is lengthened to an hour, to days, to years. The life survives and it goes on to create new life. Christmas is the celebration of life, of life under the patronage and promotion of God who is its source. It is therefore not sentimental to talk about babies at Christmas time; it is not sentimental to say that Christmas has to do with the children, for by doing so it may be that for‘s moment adults may learn again that life is strong, stronger than death, and that they may take hope again in the midst of their existence in a graveyard and in the midst of the assaults of death in the soul. Not by accident did Jesus speak of becoming again like a child in order to see the kingdom of God, for in us who are older death threa‘tens always to be stronger than life, threatens to consume the life within so that at the end it is nothing more than an empty casket. The tyrants of this world, the Herods, the slaves of death and destruction seek always to capture us and to inflict on us their gray, cancerous supremacy. There is the tyranny of busyness, the drive in our society and culture to work, work, work, not only legitimately the forty or forty-eight hours of the week, but always, filling every corner and cranny of consciousness with busy-
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U. S. massacred Hue too The massacre at Song My (or My Lai, or Pinkville) is not “an isolated example of americans committing the type of atrocities the viet tong commit everyday”. That’s the line given by most mainstream commentators in the western world today. Rather Pinkville is simply a more gory example of the results of an american war policy which includes saturation bombing and search-and-destroy missions. At the same time, american propaganda is concentrating on things like the “Hue massacre” where 3000 civilians were “inhumanly by the viet tong slaughtered” when they occupied the city during the 1968 Tet offensive.
In a november issue of the New Republic, former south vietnamese diplomat Tran Van Dinh denies the alleged viet tong atrocities and puts the blame for the high death toll on american bombing. Victims were buried together in temporary graves because Hue was under seige from U.S. artillery, not because people were lined up in front of troughs by bloodthirsty guerilla executioners. “Nobody could get out of the area to buy a coffin for a decent burial,” Dinh explains. There may have been executions in Hue,, but they were much fewer than the U.S. propaganda claims, and they were mainly government operatives and police, not women, old men and children.
PPandP is not practical Physical-plant and planning coordinator Ed Knorr said monday that it probably would just not be practical to avoid using what has been termed scab labor to clean the campus center. He explained that outside contract cleaning is cheaper (because the workers are not paid a shift bonus for night work) and that if the campus center received expensive cleaning services then other people in the university would complain. Certainly the members of the faculty association would not begrudge workers the barest minimums of -benefits when they themselves through union action are demanding a twenty-percent sal. ary increase. That leaves only administrators who might have cause to complain. Knorr explained that the supervision cost would be about the same if the university undertook
the cleaning as it will be for the outside contractor. But the outside contractor is also making a profit, so either the outside supervision is substandard or the university’s supervision is inefficient. Perhaps it is just not practical ’ to continue to have a physicalplant and planning department such as the present one. Perhaps janitors would be motivated to supervise themselves if they had a substantial raise (about equal to the amount saved by eliminating supervisors). Such a raise would end a situation where many of the janitors need second jobs to support their families. But such a situation will not come about when the administration is satisfied to save money by scrimping on the workers who have difficulty paying for basic essentials while it lavishes infla- tionary raises on faculty members who are simply demanding more luxuries on top bf an already comfortable life. ’
are not teachers
Professional development day An unstated purpose of the conwasn’t. ference was for propaganda-the Less than 250 of uniwat’s 606 - faculty association is interested faculty members on campus bothin the quality of education, uniwat ered to attend. is a dynamic institution, etc. English prof Roman Dubinski, Basically the faculty association who chaired the faculty associais interested in money-its memtion committee that planned the bers support salary demands, but program, said the program was “a not conferences on teaching. response to the kind of criticism In a recent bulletin, the faculty we hear that professors don’t care association salary committee atabout teaching. ” tempts further justification of Most professors don’t care about their claim for substantial inteaching. creases. But even those who do care They quoted the Hall-Dennis reprobably did not bother attendport which recognized that young ing the conference because there people can not be expected to enter was no attempt made to deal with the profession solely for the love of content of teaching, only structeaching or from a sense of duty. tures. They have a right to expect salaries If professors are going to teach comparable to those earned by their the same old stuff, why bother peers in the business and prochanging teaching methods? fessional world, and that reflect Last year’s lecture notes (and their contribution to society. /f peomany years before) along with ple are to make a career of teachrehashed textbook examples are ing, salaries will have to reflect pubjust fine if the primary unstated lic confidence in them. ’ object of the university is to conIn trying to make their case, the tinue to be one of socialization. faculty salary committee has dePsychedelic audio-visual methstroyed it. ods for teaching bourgeois econoThe Hall-Dennis report called mics are not going to change the for a concept of education alien to fact that the course treats workers most faculty members. And the like any other commodity-to be dedication of uni,wat’s faculty to used or discarded as the graphs teaching has already been shown. decree.
Christmas presents some uniwat people would like to receive admin
president
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pleasant way of saying ’ for- the-next-fiveyears.
academic
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highest-ranking U.S. citizen at uniwat: a Spiro Agnew good-citizenship award for helping to keep american unemployment down. admin treasurer Bruce Gellatly-a method of financing construction which is forbidden by the provincial government in such a way that the government will have to recognize and pay for the wonderful achievement. operations czar Al Adlington-a pension plan that could begin paying benefits at any time should the need arise. Cooperative programs-a solution to the job crisis. How about paying the unemplo yed students out of the government operating grants accumulated by overenrolling in said programs? math faculty-a five- year extension to dean David Spro tts sabbatical and a democratically-chosen acting dean with a primary interest in mathematics. athletic department-a ruling from the income tax department making athletic fees tax deductible so the $22 annual fee will not have to be itemized on tuition-fee statements-then students will have no more right to protest about the treatment of their athletic “‘fee” as they do now for the way the administration spends the rest of their monev. english department-a disastrous fire in the humanities building so they can build a new theater exactly to their specifications: with only enough audience seats for the department so they will not have to share it with anybody.
physical-plant
and planning-a government research grant to continue their pursuit of the depths of inefficiency (“their own thing”) immune from criticism because it would now be pure research. computing center-another computer to help keep track of expenses in the computing ten ter. faculty association-what they have always wanted: payment for what they are worth... which should save enough in this year’s budget to stock the library and pay the non-academic staff decent wages. psychology department-a new model of consciousness which never once mentions obnoxious and unscientific words like “love’: ‘free’: “need” or ‘blivegn; rather, precise words like ‘stratification ‘: ‘bn tolWY ‘Ir “‘continuum *#and “vet tor I* are used. the Gazette-some help in finding feature articles; a copy of “On contradictions” by their favorite quoted-out-of-context philosopher, Mao Tse-Tung; permission to reprint from the Chevron; and a couple of our junior staffers to help them find out what’s going on. associate
math
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A PhD, that’s all.
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mech eng prof Clarke Hermance-a Nobel peace prize for his research for the U.S. airforce on solid propellant ignition right here at uniwat. the powers-that-be-an explanation of why uniwat, which was going to lead the way into the seventies with its dynamic singletier governing structure, will have to settle for leading the way later on-in the middle of 197 1. There must be an explanation some where.
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were being aware of it myself, I stood on this other earth in the bright light of a sunny day, fair and beautiful as paradise. I believe I was standing on one of the islands which on our earth form the Greek archipelago, or somewhere on the coast of the mainland close to this archipelago. Oh, everything was just as it is with us, except that everything seemed to be bathed in the radiance of some public festival and of some great and holy triumph attained at last. The gentle emerald sea softly lapped the shore and kissed it with manifest, visible, almost conscious love. Tall, beautiful ‘trees stood in all the glory of their green luxuriant foliage, and their innumerable leaves (I am sure of that) welcomed me with their soft, tender rustle, and seemed to utter sweet words of Jove. And at last I saw and came to know the people of this blessed earth. They came to me themselves. They surrounded me. They kissed me. Children of the sun, children of their sunoh;ho w beautiful they were! Never on our earth had I beheld such beauty in man. Only perhaps in our children during the very first years of their life could one have found a remote, though faint, reflection of this beauty. The eyes of these happy people shone with a bright lustre. Their faces were radiant with understanding and a serenity of mind that had reached its greatest fulfillment. Those faces were joyous; in the words and voices of these people there was a childlike gladness. Oh, at the first glance at their faces I at once understood all, all! Jt was an earth unstained by the Fall, inhabited by people who had not sinned and who lived in the same paradise as that in which, according to the legends of mankind, our first parents lived before they sinned, with the only difference that all the earth here was everywhere the same paradise. These people, laughing, happily, thronged round me and overwhelmed me with their caresses; they took me home with them, and each of them was anxious to set my mind at peace. Oh, they asked me no questions, but seemed to know everything already (that was. the- impression I got), and they longed to remove every trace of suffering from my face as soon as possible. Jo me, a modern Russian progressive and a despicable citizen of Petersburg, it seemed inexplicable that, knowing so much, they knew nothing of our science, for instance. But I soon realized that their knowledge was derived from, and fostered by emotions other than those to which we were accustomed on earth, and that their aspirations, too, were quite different. They desired nothing. They ’ were at peace with themselves. They did no t&rive to gain knowledge of life as we strive to understand it because their Jives were full. But their kno wledge was higher and deeper than the knowledge we derive from our sci- ence; for our science seeks to explain what life is and strives to understand it in order to teach others ho w to Jive, while they knew how to Jive without ; science. I They were playful and high-spirited -.I,,,~
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like children. They wandered about their beautiful woods and groves, they sang their beautiful songs, they lived on simple food-the fruits of their trees, the honey from their woods, and the milk of the animals that loved them. Their children were the children of them all, for they were all one family. They had no places of worship, but they had a certain awareness of a constan t, uninterrupted, and living union with the universe at large. They had no specific religions, but instead they had a certain knowledge that when their earthly joy had reached the Jimits imposed upon it by nature, theyboth the living and the dead-would reach a state of still closer communion with the universe at large. They looked forward to that moment with joy, but without haste and without pining for it, as though already possessing it in the vague stirrings of their hearts, which they communicated to each other. + * + What if it was only a dream? All that couldn’t possibly not have been. And do you know, I think 171 tell you a ‘secret: perhaps it was no dream at all! For what happened afterwards was so awful, so horribly true, that it couldn’t possibly have been a mere
worshipped it and adored it with tears. Knowledge is higher than feeling, and the consciousness of life is higher than life. Science will give us wisdom. Wisdom will reveal to us the Jaws. And the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness. I’ That is what they said to me, and having uttered those words each of them began to love himself better than anyone else. Every one of them became so jealous of his own personality that he strove with might and main to belittle and humble it in o thers; and therein he saw the whole purpose of his life. Slavery made its appearance, even voluntary slavery: the weak eagerly submitted themselves to the will of the strong on condition that the strong helped them tb oppress those who were weaker than themselves. Proud and voluptuous men appeared who frankly demanded all or nothing. In order to obtain everything they did not hesitate to resort to violence, and if it failedto suicide. Jh e y glorified suffering in their songs. I walked among them, wringing my hands and weeping over them, but I loved them perhaps more than before when there was no sign of suffering in their faces and when they were innocent and -oh, so beautiful! I told them that I alone was responsible for it all---J alone; that it was I who had brought them corruption, contamination; and lies! I implored them to crucify me, and I taught them how to make the cross. I could not kill myself; J had not the courage to do it; but I longed to receive martyrdom at their hands. I thirsted for martyrdom, I yearned for my blood to be shed to the last- drop in torment and suffering. But they only laughed at me, and in the end they began looking upon me as a madman. They justified me. They said that they had got what they themselves wanted and that what was now could not have been otherwise. At last they told me that I was becoming dangerous to them and that they would Jock me up in a Junatic asylum if I did not hold my peace. Then sorrow entered my soul with such force that my heart was wrung and I felt as though J were dying, and thenwell, then I awoke. * * *
they made shame into a virtue. The conception of honor was born, and every alliance raised its own standard. They began torturing animals, and the animals ran away from them into the forests and became their enemies. A struggle began for separation for isolation, for personality, for mine and thine. They began talking in different languages. They came to know sorrow, and they loved sorrow. They thirsted for suffering, and they said that Truth could only be attained through suffering. Jt was then that science made its appearance among them. When they became wicked, they began talking of brotherhood and humanity and understood the meaning of those ideas. When they became guilty of crimes, they invented justice, and drew up whole codes of Jaw, and to ensure the carrying out of their Jaws they erected a guillotine. They only vaguely remembered what +hey had lost, and they would not believe that they ever were happy and innocent. They even laughed at the possibility of their former happiness and called it a dream. They could not even imagine it in any definite shape or form, but the strange and wonderful thing was that though they had lost faith in. their former state of happiness and called it a fairy tale, they longed so much to be happy and innocent once more that, like children, they succumbed to the desire of their hearts, glorified this desire, built temples, and began offering up prayers to their o wn idea, their o wn “desire,” and at the same time firmly believed that it could not be realized and brought about, though they still
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